SOURCE: Logan, William. “Richard Wilbur's Civil Tongue.” Parnassus: Poetry in Review 21, nos. 1 & 2 (1996): 90-110.
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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