RICHARD EBERHART - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 01/13/1986 - HFSID 190131
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RICHARD EBERHART
The poet expounds on his belief that "learning is its own reward"
Autograph Letter signed: "Richard Eberhart", 1 page, 8½x11. Gainesville, Florida, 1968
January 13. To Don Glossinger, Michigan City, Indiana, in full: "Thanks for yours of January
2. We have come down here for the eleventh year as visiting professor at the University of Florida.
Learning is its own reward. It does not necessarily conduce to action, but enriches life. I like your
sentence, 'When I go into a library, I go as a devout follower would go to church'. Before we left
from Hanover, N. N., St Martins' Press, N. H. sent me a copy of A Poet to His Beloved, the Early
Love Poems of W. B. Yeats, for which I wrote an Introduction. It is a beautiful little book, 65 pp.
See if your library has it. If not, why not ask them to get it so that you may read and enjoy it? Best
wishes". Richard Eberhart (1904-2005) wrote 20 books, including 12 books of poetry,
beginning with A Bravery of Earth (1930). He won the Pulitzer Prize for his Selected
Poems in 1966, and the National Book Award for Collected Poems in 1977. Beginning in
1950, he taught English at over a dozen universities, including 30 years at Dartmouth. He was
Poet Laureate of the Library of Congress (1959-1961). He did much to popularize the
"beat" poets, especially Allen Ginsberg, in the 1950s. Creased from folds. Fine condition.
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