SOURCE: "Richard Wilbur's Critical Condition," in Contemporary Poetry: A Journal of Criticism, Vol. II, No. 2, Autumn 1977, pp. 16-24.
In the following essay, Woodard defends Wilbur's poetry against detractors who find his work "too happy."
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