EBERHART, RICHARD

born April 5, 1904, Austin, Minnesota, U.S. American poet and teacher, a founder of the Poet's Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1951). Educated at the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth College (B.A., 1926), the University of Cambridge (B.A., 1929; M.A., 1933), and Harvard University, Eberhart published his first book of poems, A Bravery of Earth, in 1930. In the 1930s he also became tutor to the son of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand) and afterward taught at several American universities, particularly at Dartmouth (195670). He was consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress (now poet laureate consultant in poetry) from 1959 to 1961. In 1962 he was cowinner, with John Hall Wheelock, of the Bollingen Prize in Poetry. Eberhart's other works include Collected Poems, 19301976 (1976) and Of Poetry and Poets (1979), a book of criticism.