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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.
Collected Poems: 1955 Wallace Stevens: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens: 1956 W. H. Auden: The Shield of Achilles: 1957 Richard Wilbur: Things of This World: 1958 Robert Penn Warren: Promises: Poems, 1954–1956: 1959 Theodore Roethke: Words for the Wind: 1960 Robert Lowell: Life Studies: 1961 Randall Jarrell: The Woman at the Washington ...
These included poems about the Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament, a poem that sympathetically describes St. Joseph's crisis of faith, about the traumatic but purgatorial sense of loss experienced by St. Mary Magdalen after the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and about attending the Tridentine Mass on Christmas Day.
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]
Poem: Where poem previously appeared: A. R. Ammons "Anxiety's Prosody" Poetry: John Ashbery "Meanwhile..." Mudfish: Beth Bentley "Northern Idylls" The Gettysburg Review: Elizabeth Bishop "It is marvellous..." American Poetry Review: Robert Bly "My Father at 85" Common Ground: Catherine Bowman "Twins of Gazelle Which Feed Among the Lilies" The ...
Mary [b] was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, [6] the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many of them mentioned in the Litany of Loreto.
The Mary Leapor window in Brackley Town Hall The Mary Leapor Memorial in the Lady Chapel of St Peter's Church Brackley. After the "centuries of neglect" recognised by Prof. John Clarke ("Yesterday's Brackley", Barracuda Books, 1990) in a chapter about Mary, a window, inspired by her work and based on a design by a local resident Carolyn Hunter, was created by stained-glass artist Rachael ...
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist.His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". [2]