Henry S. Taylor

Henry S. Taylor (born 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet and author of over 15 books of poetry.

Taylor was born on 21 June 1942 in rural Loudoun County, Virginia. He went to high school at George School in Newtown, PA. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1965 and received his MFA from Hollins University (formerly Hollins College) in 1966.

He taught literature and co-directed the MFA program in creative writing at American University from 1971-2003.

Taylor won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1986 for his book A Flying Change.

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Crooked Run, Louisiana State University Press, 2006.
Brief Candles: 101 Clerihews, Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
Electra (a verse translation of Sophocles’ play in Sophocles I), University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Understanding Fiction: Poems, 1986-1996, Louisiana State University Press, 1996.
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.