Henry Hart (author)
Henry Hart (born 1954) is the Hickman Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary[1] 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). (2009) His poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Sewanee Review, Denver Quarterly, and numerous other journals. Hart was a founding editor of Verse, an international poetry journal. In 2010 he won the Carole Weinstein Prize for Poetry.
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