Richard Wilbur (born 1921) was a distinguished translator and the most accomplished formalist poet of his generation. In 1987 he became poet laureate of the United States. The son of portrait artist Lawrence Lazear, Richard Wilbur took the surname of his...

Richard Wilbur has always been recognized as a major literary talent and as an important man of letters-poet, critic, translator, editor-even if he has never quite been ranked as one of the two or three best contemporary American poets. Early in his care...

Richard Wilbur has always been recognized as a major literary talent and as an important man of letters--poet, critic, translator, editor--but he has never quite been ranked as one of the two or three best contemporary American poets. Early in his career...

The tagline for Disney's upcoming "Enchanted" could well be the motto for the latest push in animation: "The real world and the animated world collide."Not simply colliding in the slapstick tradition of 1988's pioneering "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?," but in the more fundamental sense of...

The name "Beowulf" alone surely will inspire painful memories of high-school English class and pangs of dread.Never fear. This 3-D animated "Beowulf" is more like "300," only with more violence, if that's possible. And nudity — lots and lots of nudity.Director Robert Zemeckis, using the...

Angelina Jolie brought her boyfriend, Brad Pitt, to the British premiere of her movie "Beowulf," but he let her have the limelight.Jolie, wearing black leather trousers and a tight sweater, signed autographs and chatted with fans Sunday in London's Leicester Square."It's so, so nice to...

The animated telling of "Beowulf," who rids a Danish kingdom of the feared beast Grendel, slew the box office over the weekend, giving a huge boost to 3-D films in the process.The Paramount Pictures release earned $28.1 million in its opening weekend — 40 percent...