Eberhart, Richard Ghormley (1904-2005)

US poet and teacher. He taught at Dartmouth and was a consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress. His poems are distinguished by his direct yet occasionally unexpected responses to the basic experiences of human life.

He was born in Austin, Minnesota and studied at the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth College, Cambridge (England), and Harvard. His poems appear in volumes such as Undercliff (1953) and Shifts of Being (1968). He also published Collected Verse Plays (1962).