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Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets, along with his friend Anthony Hecht, of the World War II generation, Wilbur's work, often employing rhyme, and composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentlemanly elegance.
His other books include translations from the Portuguese, Luís de Camões: Selected Sonnets; the textbook, Writing Metrical Poetry; and three collections of poet interviews. William Baer was the Founding Editor of The Formalist (1990–2004), a small poetry journal which played a significant role in the Formalist poetry revival (New Formalism ...
Wilbur's articles were published in book form as The Life of Mary Baker Eddy through the Concord Publishing Company in 1908; at first against the wishes of Eddy, who did not want anyone writing a biography about her, but then consented and even publicly thanked Wilbur for her work. [74] [73]
Elaine Feinstein, Mother's Girl: Hutchinson; David Gascoyne, Collected Poems [10] Lee Harwood, Crossing the frozen river: selected poems; Ian Hamilton, Fifty Poems [10] Seamus Heaney: The Sounds of Rain, Emory University, Northern Ireland native at this time living in the United States; John Heath-Stubbs: Collected Poems 1942-1987, Carcanet Press
James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. [3] He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. [5]
Mother of God: Mary, as the mother of Jesus, is the Theotokos (God-bearer), or Mother of God. Virgin birth of Jesus: Mary conceived Jesus by action of the Holy Spirit while remaining a virgin. Perpetual Virginity: Mary remained a virgin all her life, even after the act of giving birth to Jesus.
Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901, born in Joplin. His family would purposefully roam, and Hughes spent much of his youth in Kansas ...
[6] Thomas Hardy said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. [58] The poet Richard Wilbur asserted that Millay "wrote some of the best sonnets of the century." [59] [60] Nancy Milford published a biography of the poet in 2001, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St Vincent Millay.