Richard Wilbur

Things of This World

Elegant poems on language, perception, and concrete experience

About the author

Richard Wilbur
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.

More by Richard Wilbur