Henry Taylor is an accomplished poet whose work,
while often set in the South and concerned with nostalgia, does not succumb to the melancholy
sentimentality of the Lost Cause clichés. He has worked
extensively as a translator of both ancient and modern European texts, and has published a volume of
literary criticism. Taylor's career as a poet was firmly established when he won the Pulitzer Prize in
1986 for his poetry collection The Flying Change. He received the Golden Crane
Award of the Washington Chapter of the American Literary Translators Association in 1989, was awarded the
Witter Bynner Poetry Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1984, and was
inducted into the distinguished Fellowship of Southern Writers in 2001. His work has been praised for its
technical skill and traditional forms.Mon, 17 May 2010 09:30:17 EST