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Edward L. Hart
Born and reared in Bloomington, Idaho, Edward L. Hart now resides in Provo, Utah, where he has been a professor of English at Brigham young University for many years. Hart has served as president of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, and has won an award in poetry in the Utah State Institute of Fine Arts competition (1963). In addition to being a Rhodes Scholar (at Oxford University) and a conference champion miler (1939), Hart has published Minor Lives (1971), stories, and numerous poems, articles, and book reviews. His work has been widely anthologized.

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Birth Date 1916
Birth Place Bloomington, Idaho
Education B.S. Economics, University of Utah
M.A. English Michigan
D. Phil., Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar).
Career He is emeritus professor of English at Brigham Young University. His major area of scholarly interest is English literature of the eighteenth century. Hart has taught at the universities of Washington, Utah, California (Berkeley).
Affiliations Served as president of Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association.
Awards Rhodes Scholar (at Oxford University).
A conference champion miler (1939).
Won an award in poetry in the Utah State Institute of Fine Arts competition (1963).
Received a first prize award in poetry and biography from the Utah State Institute of Fine Arts in 1973 and 1975.
His collections of poetry ,To Utah, won the 1980 AML award for Poetry.

Works by Edward L. Hart
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Instruction and Delight: Scholarly and Creative Works by Members of the Faculty of the Department of English in Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of Brigham Young University1976 Anthology
John Hyde, Junior--An Earlier View1976Biography / Memoir
Writing: The Most Hazardous Craft1986Criticism
The Transformations of Love1982Criticism
The Relevance of Literature1980Criticism
Japanese and English Poetry: Some Similarities and Differences1968Criticism
Some Popular Non-Mormon Books Read by Mormons before 19001985History
Mormon in Motion: The Life and Journals of James H. Hart 1825–1906 in England, France and America1978History
Edward L. Hart: A Conversation about Poetry 2001Interview / Panel
Our Savior's Love1985Music Lyrics
Reflections on a Bereavement1992Personal Essay
The Need Beyond Reason1976Personal Essay
Bear Lake2001Poetry
Our Savior's Love2001Poetry
The Uintahs2001Poetry
A Monument for Phyllis1997Poetry
Processional1994Poetry
New York Provincial1989Poetry
Spring1989Poetry
To Utah1989Poetry
Unconquerable1989Poetry
Winter1989Poetry
The Wasatch1988Poetry
Ode to Isis1986Poetry
Home and Office1982Poetry
Depletion1981Poetry
The Fulness of Times: A Hymn1980Poetry
Poems of Praise: Poems in Commemoration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints1980Poetry Collection
Restoration1980Poetry
On Listening to Jorge Luis Borges1973Poetry
The Gentle Way: (To President David O. McKay)1970Poetry
The Gathering1964Poetry
When All Has Been Given1961Poetry
The Launching1959Poetry
A Lesson in History1954Poetry
The Good LifePoetry
Wait Till the Wind Blows toward UtahPoetry
[Review of] Beginnings by Carol Lynn Pearson1968Review






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