Henry S. Taylor

Henry S. Taylor (born 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet and author of over 15 books of poetry.

Life
Taylor was born on 21 June 1942 in rural Loudoun County, Virginia, where he was raised as a Quaker. He went to high school at George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1965 and received his M.A. from Hollins University (formerly Hollins College) in 1966.

He taught literature and co-directed the MFA program in creative writing at American University from 1971–2003.

Recognition
Taylor won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1986 for his book The Flying Change.

Publications
ISBN
 * Crooked Run, Louisiana State University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0807131251
 * Brief Candles: 101 Clerihews, Louisiana State University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0807125649
 * Electra (a verse translation of Sophocles’ play in Sophocles I), University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. ISBN 978-0-8122-1653-0
 * Understanding Fiction: Poems, 1986–1996, Louisiana State University Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0807121115
 * Curculio (a translation of the play by Titus Maccius Plautus in Plautus: The Comedies, Volume 1), Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0801850707
 * Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets, Louisiana State University Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0807117552
 * The Flying Change, Louisiana State University Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0807112632
 * The Children of Herakles, Oxford University Press, 1982. ISBN 978-0195072884
 * The Water of Light: A Miscellany in Honor of Brewster Ghiselen, University of Utah Press, 1976. ISBN 0874801052
 * An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, University of Utah Press, 1975. ISBN 0-87480-098-6
 * Poetry: Points of Departure, Winthrop, 1974. ISBN 978-0876266786
 * Breakings, Solo Press, 1969.
 * The Girl in the Black Raincoat, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1966. ASIN B000FREQKI
 * The Horse Show at Midnight and An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards, Louisiana State University Press, 1965. ISBN 978-0-8071-1763-7