Robert Bernard Hass (born 1962) is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

, literary critic, and professor.

Life and work

Robert Bernard Hass is the author of ''Going by Contraries: Robert Frost's Conflict With Science'' (University of Virginia Press, 2002), which was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title in 200

He is also the author of the poetry collection, ''Counting Thunder'', published by David Robert Books in 2008, and co-editor of the ''Letters of Robert Frost'' (Harvard University Press). His articles and poems have appeared in a number of journals including Poetry, Sewanee Review, Agni, Black Warrior Review, Studies in English Literature, and the Journal of Modern Literature. He has won an Academy of American Poets Prize, an AWP Intro Journals Award and a creative writing fellowship to Bread Loaf. Hass grew up in

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. He received his B.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 1985, 1993, and 1999, and a M.A. from the

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in 1987, studying under

Donald Justice Donald Rodney Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American teacher of writing and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980. In summing up Justice's career, David Orr wrote, "In most ways, Justice was no different from a ...

; he is currently Professor of English at

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of Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in American literature and

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.Robert Frost is the Focus for Two Edinboro Professors
''Edinboro University Spectator'', February 22, 2002.

References

External links

for ''Going by Contraries''

a poem by Hass, at Agni online.

Publisher of Counting Thunder 1962 births Living people 21st-century American poets American literary critics Pennsylvania State University alumni University of Florida alumni 21st-century American non-fiction writers {{US-poet-1960s-stub