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	Dana Gioia Online - Richard Wilbur
		Richard Purdy Wilbur was born on March 1, 1921 in New York City.
		In a nation famously composed of immigrants, Wilbur had unusually deep native roots–he was an eleventh generation American descended from the original settlers of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
		Wilbur retired from teaching in 1986, and in 1987 he succeeded Robert Penn Warren to become the second Poet Laureate of the United States.
	www.danagioia.net /essays/ewilbur.htm (2628 words)

	The Poetry Center at Smith College -- Biographies
		Wilbur’s first book, The Beautiful Changes, was published in 1947 to much critical acclaim; the publication of the second, Ceremony and Other Poems, cemented his reputation as America’s finest poet writing in traditional meters and forms.
		Wilbur once said in an interview: “If one chooses form rightly, one is not submitting to the demands of the form but making use of it at every moment.
		Wilbur’s translations of Molière, Racine, Apollinaire, and others, are widely praised for incorporating the spirit of both language and author, while maintaining the original form and rhyme scheme.
	www.smith.edu /poetrycenter/bios.php?name=rwilbur (337 words)

	Richard Wilbur: Biography and General Commentary
		Richard Wilbur was born in New York City on March 1, 1921.
		Wilbur’s lyric calling-to-life of the things of this world – the things, rather than the processes or people – specializes in both true and false happy endings, not by choice but by necessity; he obsessively sees, and shows, the bright underside of every dark thing.
		Because of the uniform quality of Richard Wilbur's poetry over the years, changes in his vision are not as easily traceable as in the work of Rich, a poet who celebrates change.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/s_z/wilbur/bio.htm (0 words)

	Rambles: Richard Wilbur, Collected Poems: 1943-2004 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Richard Wilbur is perhaps the most accessible of the major 20th-century American poets, and this collection of nearly all of his verse is a thick volume that deserves its inch and a half on every poetry reader's most frequented bookcase.
		Wilbur's poems are occasionally criticized for lacking the power of some of his contemporaries, Robert Lowell chief among them.
		Wilbur was an observer not only of nature, but of the human heart, and a chronicler of the place of man in that natural world.
	rambles.net /wilbur_collected04.html (508 words)

	Richard Wilbur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Purdy Wilbur (born March 1, 1921), is an American poet.
		Richard Wilbur was born in New York City and educated at Amherst College and Harvard.
		Wilbur is also a translator, specializing in the 17th century French comedies of Molière and the dramas of Jean Racine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Wilbur (335 words)

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		Wilbur was a native of Vermont who received his law degree from Boston University in 1892 and immediately moved to Portland at the urging of his brother Earl.
		Wilbur began law practice during a time of growth and optimism in Portland and Oregon.
		Wilbur joined Spencer in the Board of Trade Building in 1909 (where the firm stayed until 1963), and they formed a partnership, Wilbur and Spencer.
	www.schwabe.com /history.asp (0 words)

	Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)
		Compare Wilbur's vigorous defense of traditional patterns, metrics, and rhyme with Olson's essay "Projective Verse" or similar arguments for "open form." Early comments on Wilbur's tight artistic discipline appear in M. Rosenthal's The Modern Poets (Oxford University Press, 1960).
		This poem expresses Wilbur's repeated conviction that "mirages" are not enough, that "all shinings" must be worked out in the world of sensory reality.
		Wilbur also does not use the word "syphilis," though that obviously is the disease Pangloss suffers from.
	college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/wilbur.html (1006 words)

	The Richard Wilbur Forum
		At 85, Richard Wilbur won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize of 2006, which is administered by the Poetry Foundation and includes an award of $100,000.
		Wilbur himself explains that his poem uses the epic to make the argument that a hero, to preserve his world, “must in a sense kill or evict the child in himself.” Professor Nicholas Ruddick notes the tension between a Romantic perspective and a Realist perspective that Wilbur’s doubled structure suggests.
		Richard Wilbur’s “Beowulf” differs from the medieval epic of the same title in length and content to show apparently, among other things, the repercussions of an overblown imagination that does not do justice to physical reality.
	www.auburn.edu /~waiisab/wf/wilburforum.htm (859 words)

	Richard Wilbur
		Richard Wilbur's life and career - New York childhood, Amherst and Harvard education, wartime experience, The Beautiful Changes, work as translator of Molière and Racine, Pulitzer, Bollingen and many other prizes.
		Richard Wilbur was born in New York City in 1921, and educated at Amherst College and Harvard.
		Wilbur has established himself not just as a poet, but as a translator, and as a fine adapter of plays too (specializing in Molière and Racine).
	www.interviews-with-poets.com /richard-wilbur/wilbur-note.html (401 words)

	The form of poetry: Richard Wilbur's collected poems Weekly Standard, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Now eighty-three, Wilbur is the last surviving member of the "Big Three" of his generation of American poets (Donald Justice and Anthony Hecht having died just months ago).
		Richard Wilbur is a formalist, but he has never been content to mass-produce the common fixed forms: sonnets, villanelles, and sestinas.
		Wilbur compounded the offense of his reserve by not going crazy, leading an apparently happy life with a marriage of more than sixty years.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0RMQ/is_14_10/ai_n8681070 (927 words)

	Wilbur Richard - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wilbur Richard - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Wilbur, Richard (1921- ), American poet and university professor, born in New York.
		Wilbur was associated with the New Formalist movement and in...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Wilbur_Richard.html (71 words)

	Richard Wilbur's genius. - By James Longenbach - Slate Magazine
		Wilbur and Robert Lowell: While Lowell is the poet who transformed himself, liberating poetry from the modernist shackles of impersonality, Wilbur is the poet who stayed the same, continuing to write with the courtly manners he perfected in the 1950s.
		Wilbur and John Ashbery: While Ashbery is the poet of our postmodernity, constructing poems that mirror our disheveled mediascape, Wilbur is the poet who remained content with formalist procedures, composing poems Tennyson would recognize.
		Wilbur's poems matter not because they may or may not be stylish at any given moment but because they keep the English language alive: Wilbur's great poems feel as fresh—as astonishing, as perplexing, as shocking—as they did 50 years ago.
	www.slate.com /id/2110115 (1573 words)

	PoetryFoundation.org: Former Freight Hopper Makes Good
		Richard Wilbur on meeting Frost, writing in foxholes, and falling in and out of fashion.
		Wilbur had an academic career at Wesleyan University, and remains an active translator, particularly of classic French drama.
		Richard Wilbur: Actually, in my background, at that time, most of the poets I admired—and many of them were alive—were capable of writing metrically.
	www.poetryfoundation.org /features/feature.onpoets.html?id=178034 (5265 words)

	Richard Wilbur Wins 2006 Lilly Prize... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Richard Wilbur has published over two-dozen poems in Poetry since his first appearance in the magazine in February 1948.
		Entering a Wilbur poem is a deeply civil and civilizing experience, from which we emerge better human beings," said John Barr, president of the Poetry Foundation.
		Wilbur began to write poetry in earnest only after experiencing the horrific chaos of battle during WWII service as an infantryman in Italy.
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	The Connection.org : The Poet Richard Wilbur
		Richard Wilbur has lived his life waiting for poems to happen.
		Wilbur published his first book of poems in 1947 -- and throughout the fifties was considered one of America's leading poetic voices.
		During the 1960 and 70s, Wilbur's formal style was overwhelmed by the raging free verse of poets like Plath and Ginsberg.
	www.theconnection.org /shows/2005/07/20050715_b_main.asp (204 words)

	Richard Wilbur reads poetry (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Wilbur published his first volume of poetry, The Beautiful Changes, in 1947 and has since won high praise for his work.
		Wilbur also has collaborated with Lillian Hellman and Leonard Bernstein in writing the lyrics for the comic opera Candide.
		A former president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Wilbur recently was made a chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Academiques in Paris.
	www.news.cornell.edu /chronicle/97/4.10.97/Wilbur.html (266 words)

	Poetry: Richard Wilbur
		Click on the first of these two links to read a revealing interview with Wilbur, as he discusses his influences, physical motion (!), and why he is "grateful" to poetry.
		Highlights in this discussion are Wilbur's childhood and upbringing, his family, his influences, his college years, and many other revealing topics.
		Wilbur continued to publish poetry and win prestigious awards while establishing himself as a talented translator and lyricist.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/wilbur.htm (351 words)

	Wilbur Hotsprings
		The spa at Wilbur Hot Springs is a true sanctuary for the self, where quietude is revered and conservation is a way of life.
		Owned since 1972 by Dr. Richard Louis Miller, Wilbur Hot Springs resort is a place where consideration and mutual respect reign, emphasizing a cooperative experience.
		Most of Wilbur's guests are couples, friends or families who seek relaxation in a rustic, serene setting of beauty and peace — and who return to Wilbur again and again to find it.
	www.wilburhotsprings.com (0 words)

	Richard Wilbur, Mayflies
		In 1989 Richard Wilbur published his New and Collected Poems, a landmark volume which won that year's Pulitzer Prize.
		Richard Wilbur was born in New York City in 1921.
		Wilbur's work embraces the rich exchange of pleasure and reward that accompanies the writing and receiving of great poetry.
	www.waywiser-press.com /wilbur.html (821 words)

	[minstrels] Transit -- Richard Wilbur
		I think what I enjoy most about Wilbur's poetry is his unxepected ('elaborately playful' expresses it very well) turns of phrase, evident here in the final couplet, where we are hit with the twin images of "stations of her body" and "a whip maps the countries of the air".
		Parenthetically, the line "made so beautiful that she or time must fade" seems to be a dig at Shakespeare, whose preoccupation with time and decay permeates the sonnets, though the imagery in the next verse is more reminiscent of a later generation of poets.
		And I have to admire the way Wilbur makes the images his own, blending them into the poem at the same time as he turns the critical, external eye of 'what use?' upon them.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1116.html (396 words)

	The Voice of the Poet: Richard Wilbur Audio Book
		Wilbur was one of four children; his father was a professional portrait painter.
		Wilbur was raised in rural New Jersey, then studied literature at Amherst College (B.A.) and at Harvard (M.A.), and served in World War II.
		Wilbur was poet laureate of the United States in 1987-88.
	www.audioeditions.com /showbook.cfm?pcode=D1R665 (369 words)

	Richard Wilbur — Infoplease.com
		A skillful craftsman who writes gracefully in traditional verse forms, Wilbur is always original, generally affirmative in his view of the world, and can be profound and witty, playful and intellectual.
		Wilbur was America's poet laureate from 1987 to 1988.
		Wilbur's 'A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra.' (Richard Wilbur)
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0852240.html (240 words)

	Beowulf Summary & Essays - Richard Wilbur (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In this poem, Wilbur retells part of an Old English epic, or long narrative poem, also called “Beowulf.” He describes the hero of the ancient poem from a mid-twentieth century point of view.
		Wilbur is often seen as a poet of affirmation, one who has a bright and witty view of the world.
		The power of this poem may come from Wilbur’s exploration of a dark side of existence, in spite of his natural inclination to celebrate the details that make life worthwhile.
	www.enotes.com /beowulf-wilbur (363 words)

	Amazon.com: Collected Poems 1943-2004: Books: Richard Wilbur (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I first read Richard Wilbur's poems more than 20 years ago, but I have to admit that for most of that time he has been for me like the fire brigade or catastrophic health insurance -- I was glad he was there, but for whatever reason he didn't seem terribly relevant in my life.
		Wilbur's work is notable for his affinity with the poetry of Europe and elsewhere.
		Wilbur is one of the indispensables; impossible to imagine American poetry, or indeed the American trajectory, without these poems, so deftly shaped, giving such wry light.
	www.amazon.com /Collected-Poems-1943-2004-Richard-Wilbur/dp/0151011052 (2164 words)

	Richard Wilbur's Collected Poems, Edward Zuk
		It was Wilbur’s fate to have come of age in an era in which poets pushed their experiments and discoveries to extremes, and to have to be judged against the violent outbursts of Pound, Eliot, Yeats, and other high Modernists.
		Wilbur is drawn by types of semi-consciousness such as dreams, the state between sleep and waking, and even the paranormal, not for their potential to open grand visions or spiritual vistas, but for their ability to reveal the ambiguity and weakness inherent in all human perception.
		Wilbur is more like a La Rochefoucauld in verse – a poet interested in philosophy with highly intriguing observations and gleanings, but whose work does not quite amount to a full-blown metaphysics.
	www.n2hos.com /acm/rev52005.html (2929 words)

	Richard Wilbur, translator and poet
		Richard Wilbur (1921-) is a prolific poet, translator, and teacher, having held professorships at Harvard, Wellesley, and Smith in a teaching career that began in 1947 and lasted until 1986.
		Beginning with The Misanthrope, Richard Wilbur has become one of the English language's major translators of French classical drama.
		Since the 1955 publication of Wilbur's verse translation of The Misanthrope, he has translated Racine's Phaedra and Andromache and six other plays by Molière: Tartuffe, The School for Wives, The Learned Ladies, The School for Husbands, The Imaginary Cuckold, or, Sganarelle, and Amphitryon.
	www.indiana.edu /~thtr/2000/misanthrope/wilbur.html (358 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Richard Wilbur's 'Collected Poems'
		Certainly Wilbur has long been admired (and envied) for his urbane dexterity, his ability to make lines run smoothly, almost effortlessly down the page.
		After all, Wilbur has turned to every poetic form with remarkable success: Now-standard translations of Moliere's plays, the best versions of Baudelaire (and many other poets) in English, the delightful children's verse of Opposites ("What is the opposite of soup?/ It's nuts.
		You should already be familiar with Richard Wilbur's work -- and if you're not, then you know what present to ask for this holiday season.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A11894-2004Nov25?language=printer (864 words)

	Powell's Books - Collected Poems 1943-2004 by Richard Wilbur
		Over the course of his distinguished sixty-year career, Richard Wilbur has written seventeen collections of poetry, four children's books, and numerous works in prose and translations.
		This comprehensive collection presents new and never published poems by Richard Wilbur, author of 17 poetry collections, four children's books, and numerous works in prose and translations.
		Richard Wilbur has served as poet laureate of the United States, and his many other honors include the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize (twice), and the Bollinger Translation Prize.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0151011052-0 (385 words)

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