Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur
Title | Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Bagg |
Publisher | UMass + ORM |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 2018-06-29 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1613764588 |
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) is part of a notable literary cohort, American poets who came to prominence in the mid-twentieth century. Wilbur's verse is esteemed for its fluency, wit, and optimism; his ingeniously rhymed translations of French drama by Molière, Racine, and Corneille remain the most often staged in the English-speaking world; his essays possess a scope and acumen equal to the era's best criticism. This biography examines the philosophical and visionary depth of his world-renowned poetry and traces achievements spanning seventy years, from political editorials about World War II to war poems written during his service to his theatrical career, including a contentious collaboration with Leonard Bernstein and Lillian Hellman. Wilbur's life has been mistakenly seen as blessed, lacking the drama of his troubled contemporaries. Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur corrects that view and explores how Wilbur's perceived "normality" both enhanced and limited his achievement. The authors augment the life story with details gleaned from access to his unpublished journals, family archives, candid interviews they conducted with Wilbur and his wife, Charlee, and his correspondence with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, John Malcolm Brinnin, James Merrill, and others.
Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur
Title | Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Bagg |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Poets, American |
ISBN | 9781613764572 |
Things of this World
Title | Things of this World PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wilbur |
Publisher | New York : Harcourt, Brace |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN |
Anterooms
Title | Anterooms PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wilbur |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
Pages | 63 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780547358116 |
Celebrates the human condition through reflections on nature and love, while a series of translations bring other authors' poems and riddles into a new light.
Mayflies
Title | Mayflies PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wilbur |
Publisher | Waywiser Press |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781904130116 |
In 1989 Richard Wilbur published New and Collected Poems, a landmark volume that won that year's Pulitzer Prize. Now, ten years later, he has prepared a collection of all the poetry he has written in the intervening years, together with new translations of Moliere (from Amphitryon) and Dante. These twenty-five poems reaffirm Wilbur's stature as one of our greatest living masters of verse.
The Mind-reader
Title | The Mind-reader PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wilbur |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Pages | 67 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780156598057 |
The Disappearing Alphabet
Title | The Disappearing Alphabet PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Wilbur |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 35 |
Release | 1998-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0547538774 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur turns his sharp eye to the noble alphabet and imagines what life would be like without these twenty-six little--but powerful--letters. Packed with humor and witty subtleties, the verse in this captivating picture book is splendidly matched by Caldecott Medal winner David Diaz's hilariously clever illustrations.