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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.
The poem has six stanzas of four lines each, featuring slant rhyme. [2] The regularity of the four-line stanzas, according to Linda Wagner-Martin, serves to suggest "a grim insistence". [2] The poem's literary allusions include references to Herman Melville's Moby Dick, William Shakespeare's The Tempest, and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. [3]
The Richard Wilbur Award is an American poetry award and publishing prize given by University of Evansville in Indiana. It is named in honor of the American poet Richard Wilbur [ A ] and was established by William Baer , a professor at the University of Evansville.
Though it has not regained its position of dominance within literary English poetry, accentual-syllabic verse remains viable and popular in the 21st century, as evidenced by the success of such poets as Richard Wilbur and the various New Formalists. Moreover, although free verse dominates published literary poetry, rhymed verse—accentual ...
Hilberry is the author of eleven books of poetry. He and his daughter Jane, also a poet, co-authored a volume titled This Awkward Art: Poems by a Father and Daughter, introduced by Richard Wilbur. He was co-editor (with Michael Delp, and Herbert Scott) of the anthology Contemporary Michigan Poetry: Poems from the Third Coast (1988).
[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.
Mary Borden, Poems of Love and War, edited by Paul O'Prey, was published in London by Dare-Gale Press, [11] distributed by the University of Chicago Press [12] in the US. Her war poems were slowly recognized but now feature in several modern First World War poetry anthologies. [13] Her 1937 novel Action for Slander was adapted into a film the ...
Siegfried Sassoon, a British war poet famous for his poetry written during the First World War. This is a partial list of authors known to have composed war poetry . Pre-1500