Henry Hart lives in Williamsburg

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

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, Virginia

Virginia

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, where he is a professor of English at the College of William and Mary

College of William and Mary

The College of William & Mary in Virginia is a public research university located in Williamsburg, Virginia, United States...

. In addition to two books of poetry, The Ghost Ship (1990) and The Rooster Mask (1998), he has written critical works on such poets as Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...

, Geoffrey Hill

Geoffrey Hill

Geoffrey Hill is an English poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation...

 and Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet, considered the founder of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress where he served from 1947 until 1948...

. He edited The James Dickey Reader (1999); and his study of Dickey

James Dickey

James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966.-Early years:...

, James Dickey: The World as a Lie (2000), was runner-up in nonfiction for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. He has also recently completed a novel, Changshin Mission, and a third book of poetry, Rural Apocalypse. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals and in The Best American Poetry: 1996, and his essays have appeared in Twentieth Century Literature, The Southern Review, New England Review, and many other literary publications. Hart is also an editor of Verse, an international poetry journal.