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| Name: |
Richard Purdy Wilbur | | Birth Date: |
1921 | | Place of Birth: |
Manhattan, New York, United States | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet, translator |
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 Biography of Richard Purdy Wilbur
1,170 words, approx. 4 pages
 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... summary from source:
Biography of Richard Purdy Wilbur
9,154 words, approx. 31 pages
 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... summary from source:
 Biography of Richard (Purdy) Wilbur
8,155 words, approx. 27 pages
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...
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 Richard Wilbur Quotes
1,528 words, approx. 5 pages
Richard Purdy Wilbur (born 1 March 1921 ) is an American poet, a former United States Poet Laureate and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 National Book Award Acceptance Speech (1957) 1.2 The Beacon 1.3 Love Calls Us To The...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Wilbur, Richard (Purdy)
86 words, approx. 1 pages(born March 1, 1921, New York, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. poet, critic, editor, and translator. He studied literature at Harvard University and established himself as an important young poet with the collections The Beautiful Changes (1947) and Ceremony (1950).... summary from source:
 Richard Wilbur Information
471 words, approx. 2 pages
Richard Purdy Wilbur (born March 1, 1921), is an American poet. He is a former United States Poet Laureate and two-time winner of the Pulitzer...
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 New Criterion The metaphysics of Richard Wilbur.
04/01/2005: 4,924 words, approx. 16 pages During World War II the Allied forces in Europe had trouble maintaining a staff of cryptographers. There were few who could do the difficult work of deciphering enemy codes. Some got killed and others cracked up under the pressure of constant shelling and... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Richard Bader Wants To Save The Wilbur
01/14/1987: 1,133 words, approx. 4 pages Richard Bader, with his partner Charles Parker, has owned the Wilbur Theater since l98l. He bought it with "high hopes of what could happen outside Broadway in Boston." Almost ever since the l,200-seat house, which was built in l9l4 (by one A. L. Wilbur...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by William Logan
17,262 words, approx. 58 pages
The following review essay examines Wilbur's career as a poet and finds his poetry “too elegant to be good, and too good to be elegant.”
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Interview by Richard Wilbur with Steve Kronen
11,996 words, approx. 40 pages
Kronen is an American poet and critic. In the following interview, Wilbur discusses his influences, his thoughts on being poet laureate, and his opinions of contemporary poetry.
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Critical Essay by Bruce Michelson
11,352 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Michelson explores word-play in several of Wilbur's poems, including “The Regatta” and “Year's End”.
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