SOURCE: Cummins, Paul F. “New Wine in Old Bottles.” In Richard Wilbur: A Critical Essay, pp. 10-19. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 1971.
In the following excerpt, Cummins suggests that Wilbur's consistent use of traditional verse forms for his poetry owes to the poet's assertion that “the artist cannot hope to translate his direct apprehension of reality into a meaningful expression without the distance afforded by form.”
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