George Garrett (poet)

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George Garrett (born 1929) is an American poet and novelist. He has been the poet laureate of Virginia since 2002. His novels include The Finished Man, Double Vision, and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of Death of the Fox, The Succession, and Entered from the Sun. He has worked as a book reviewer and screenwriter, and taught at Hollins University and, for many years, the University of Virginia. He is the subject of critical books by R. H. W. Dillard and Irving Malin.