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{{Short description|Biographer and 17th Virginia Poet Laureate (born 1954)}}

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'''Henry Hart''' (born 1954) is the Hickman Professor of [[Humanities]] at the [[College of William & Mary]]<ref name="Bloom">{{cite book|last=Bloom|first=Harold |title=Seamus Heaney |year=2002|publisher=Infobase |isbn=0-7910-6816-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C1_JzE_JWFUC&dq=Henry+Hart+poet&pg=PA66}}</ref> in [[Williamsburg, Virginia]]. In addition to three books of poetry — ''The Ghost Ship'' (1990), ''The Rooster Mask'' (1998), and ''Background Radiation'' (2007) — he has written critical works on such poets as [[Seamus Heaney]], [[Geoffrey Hill]], and [[Robert Lowell]]. 

He edited ''The James Dickey Reader'' (1999), and his biography ''James Dickey: The World as a Lie'' (2000) was a finalist in nonfiction for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. He also edited ''The Wadsworth Themes in American Literature Series'' (2009). His poems and essays have appeared in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[Poetry (magazine)|Poetry]]'', ''[[Kenyon Review|The Kenyon Review]]'', ''[[The Southern Review]]'', ''[[Sewanee Review|The Sewanee Review]]'', ''[[Denver Quarterly]]'', and numerous other journals. 

Hart was a founding editor of ''Verse'', an international poetry journal active 1984–2018. In 2010, he won the Carole Weinstein Prize for Poetry. On July 2, 2018, he was sworn in as the 17th [[Poet Laureate of Virginia]] in the commonwealth's capital of [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]].<ref name="Ducibella">{{cite news |last1=Ducibella |first1=Jim |title=Henry Hart has a new title: poet laureate of Virginia |url=https://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2018/henry-hart-has-a-new-title-poet-laureate-of-virginia.php |accessdate=17 September 2018 |work=William & Mary News & Media |date=June 21, 2018}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

=== Poetry ===

* ''The Ghost Ship'' (1990) 
* ''The Rooster Mask'' (1998) 
* ''Background Radiation'' (2007)
* "Familiar Ghosts" (2014)<ref>{{cite web |title=Henry Hart |url=https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/virginiapoets/hamptonroads/poets/3/ |website=Virginia Poets Database: A Literary and Educational Resource |access-date=12 January 2025 |date=10 January 2022}}</ref>

=== Books and biographies ===

* "The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill" (1986)
* "Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions (1992)
* "The James Dickey Reader" (1999)
* ''James Dickey: The World as a Lie'' (2000)
* "The Life of Robert Frost: A Critical Biography" (2017)<ref>{{cite web |title=Henry Hart {{!}} Mildred and J.B. Hickman Professor of English & Humanities |url=https://www.wm.edu/as/english/facultystaff/hart_h.php |publisher=William & Mary |access-date=12 January 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

==References==
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== External links ==

* [https://rose.library.emory.edu/ Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library], Emory University: [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8zdn2 James Dickey: The World as a Lie research files, 1990-2005]
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