Honors for Dartmouth Poet

One of Dartmouth's most widely acclaimed poets, Richard Eberhart '26, who went to Princeton this fall as Visiting Professor, received two outstanding honors this year. A committee of poets appointed by the Chancellor of the University of Chicago selected him as the 1955 recipient of the biennial Harriet Monroe Poetry Prize of $500, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters chose him as one of sixteen artists, authors and composers to receive a grant of $1,000 in recognition and encouragement of creative work. This is the second time that he has won a Harriet Monroe Poetry award.

Last year Eberhart was the first poet and visiting professor to serve on the faculty of Wheaton College. He has taught and lectured at many colleges and universities, including the Universities of Washington and Connecticut. The author of more than ten distinguished books of verse, Dartmouth awarded him the honorary Doctorate of Letters degree in June 1954. He was the recipient of the Shelley Memorial Prize, given by the Poetry Society of America, in 1951, for his Selected Poems. He has the M.A. and B.A. degrees from St. John's College, Cambridge, England, and for a year was tutor to the son of King Prajadhipak of Siam.

Richard Eberhart '26, shown with hand upraised, takes part in a roundtable discussion andpoetry reading with three other poets, two of them Dartmouth men, at Brown University lastMay. With him are (l to r): Robert Lowell, Samuel French Morse '36 and Philip Booth '47.