SOURCE: "Poetry's Debt to Poetry," in The Hudson Review, Vol. XXVI, No. 2, Summer, 1973, pp. 273-94.
Wilbur is an American poet and critic. Respected for the craftsmanship and elegance of his verse, he employs formal poetic structures and smoothly flowing language as a response to disorder and chaos in modern life. In the following excerpt, Wilbur comments on Roethke's emulation of other poets.
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