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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.
[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.
The sentence was carried out in the Beast Market in Wrexham on 15 October 1584. Richard Gwyn was canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. His feast day is celebrated on 17 October. Six works of Welsh poetry by Richard Gwyn, five carols and a funeral ode, have been discovered and published. [27]
Richard Greenfield, A Carnage in the Lovetress (University of California Press) John Hollander, Picture Window; William Logan, Macbeth in Venice; Howard Nemerov, The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov, edited by Daniel Anderson (Swallow/Ohio University) published posthumously); a New York Times "notable book of the year"
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).
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.
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Wilbur Award may refer to: The Richard Wilbur Award - a poetry award sponsored by the University of Evansville The Wilbur Awards - a religious communication award sponsored by the Religion Communicators Council