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Henry S. Taylor is an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for his book A Flying Change. He currently teaches literature and co-directs the MFA program at American University. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1965 and received his MFA from Hollins University (formerly Hollins College) in 1966.

[edit] Bibliography

• Electra (a verse translation of Sophocles’ play in Sophocles I), University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
• Curculio (a translation of the play by Titus Maccius Plautus in Plautus: The Comedies, Volume 1), Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets, Louisiana State University Press, 1992.
• The Flying Change, Louisiana State University Press, 1986.
• The Children of Herakles, Oxford University Press, 1982.
• The Water of Light: A Miscellany in Honor of Brewster Ghiselen, University of Utah Press, 1976.
• An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, University of Utah Press, 1974.
• Poetry: Points of Departure, Winthrop, 1974.
• Breakings, Solo Press, 1969.
• The Horse Show at Midnight and An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, Louisiana State University Press, 1965.

[edit] Resources

Interview with Taylor in the Courtland Review
List of books by Hollins Alumnae