Richard Wilbur
American poet who was twice Poet Laureate and won two Pulitzer Prizes. His formally precise, witty verse upheld the values of craft against the confessional tide, and his translations of Moliere and Racine are also celebrated.
Works
- The Beautiful ChangesEarly formal poems celebrating change and natural beauty
- Things of This WorldElegant poems on language, perception, and concrete experience
- Walking to SleepPoems balancing formal control with psychological exploration
- The Mind-ReaderDramatic monologues and psychological poems exploring consciousness
- New and Collected PoemsComprehensive retrospective of Wilbur's formal and accessible verse