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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.
National Book Award for Poetry: Richard Wilbur, Things of this World; Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Things of This World by Richard Wilbur; Bollingen Prize: Allen Tate; Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Conrad Aiken; Robert Frost Fellowship in Poetry: May Swenson; Yale Series of Younger Poets Award: James Wright for The Green Wall
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]
Brian Turner, Here, Bullet (Alice James Books), war poetry; Richard Wilbur, Collected Poems, 1943–2004 (Harvest Books), one of The New York Times "100 Notable books of the year" [16] Marvin X, Land of My Daughters: Poems 1995–2005 (Black Bird Press) Jesse Lee Kercheval, Chartreuse (Hollyridge Press)
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems [18] Marianne Moore, Like a Bulwark [18] Gertrude Stein, Stanzas in meditation and Other Poems (1929–1933) [18] Peter Viereck, The Persimmon Tree [18] John Hall Wheelock, Poems Old and New [18] Reed Whittemore, An American Takes a Walk [18] Richard Wilbur, Things of This World: Poems, New York ...
Collected Poems, 1948–1984: Winner [7] 1987 William Meredith: Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems: Winner [8] 1988 Richard Wilbur: New and Collected Poems: Winner [9] 1989 Donald Hall: The One Day: A Poem in Three Parts: Winner [10] 1990 John Caddy: The Color of Mesabi Bones: Winner [11] Marilyn Hacker: Going Back to the River: Finalist ...
I’m fairly certain it drew my love map in indelible ink, and Richard Lewis — whom we sadly lost Wednesday — held the pen. Picture it: suburban Connecticut, the late 1980s. A pre-teen girl ...
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Wilbur: New and Collected Poems; Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize: Mona Van Duyn; Whiting Awards: Russell Edson, Mary Karr, C.D. Wright; William Carlos Williams Award: Diane Wakoski, Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987; Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets: Richard Howard