Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur

Author : Robert Bagg
Publisher : UMass + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1613764588
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur written by Robert Bagg and published by UMass + ORM. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) is part of a notable literary cohort, American poets who came to prominence in the mid-twentieth century. Wilbur's verse is esteemed for its fluency, wit, and optimism; his ingeniously rhymed translations of French drama by Molière, Racine, and Corneille remain the most often staged in the English-speaking world; his essays possess a scope and acumen equal to the era's best criticism. This biography examines the philosophical and visionary depth of his world-renowned poetry and traces achievements spanning seventy years, from political editorials about World War II to war poems written during his service to his theatrical career, including a contentious collaboration with Leonard Bernstein and Lillian Hellman. Wilbur's life has been mistakenly seen as blessed, lacking the drama of his troubled contemporaries. Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur corrects that view and explores how Wilbur's perceived "normality" both enhanced and limited his achievement. The authors augment the life story with details gleaned from access to his unpublished journals, family archives, candid interviews they conducted with Wilbur and his wife, Charlee, and his correspondence with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, John Malcolm Brinnin, James Merrill, and others.

Author : Richard Wilbur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904130444
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anterooms written by Richard Wilbur and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of poetry, translations, light verse, and riddles.

Author : Richard Wilbur
Publisher : New York : Harcourt, Brace
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Things of this World written by Richard Wilbur and published by New York : Harcourt, Brace. This book was released on 1956 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Wilbur
Publisher : Waywiser Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904130116
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mayflies written by Richard Wilbur and published by Waywiser Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989 Richard Wilbur published New and Collected Poems, a landmark volume that won that year's Pulitzer Prize. Now, ten years later, he has prepared a collection of all the poetry he has written in the intervening years, together with new translations of Moliere (from Amphitryon) and Dante. These twenty-five poems reaffirm Wilbur's stature as one of our greatest living masters of verse.

Author : Richard Michelson
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822980428
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Money than God written by Richard Michelson and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we come to terms with loss? How do we find love after tragedy? How can art and language help us to cope with life, and honor the dead? How does one act responsibly in a world that is both beautiful, full of suffering, and balanced precariously on the edge of despair and ruin? With humor, anger and great tenderness, Richard Michelson’s poems explore the boundaries between the personal and the political, and the connections between history and memory. Growing up under the shadow of the Holocaust, in a Brooklyn neighborhood consumed with racial strife, Michelson’s experiences were far from ordinary, yet they remain too much a part of the greater circle of poverty and violence to be dismissed as merely private concerns, safely past. It is Michelson’s sense of humor and acute awareness of Jewish history, with its ancient emphasis on the fundamental worth of human existence that makes this accessible book, finally, celebratory and life-affirming.

Author : Richard Wilbur
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547538774
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Disappearing Alphabet written by Richard Wilbur and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998-09-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur turns his sharp eye to the noble alphabet and imagines what life would be like without these twenty-six little--but powerful--letters. Packed with humor and witty subtleties, the verse in this captivating picture book is splendidly matched by Caldecott Medal winner David Diaz's hilariously clever illustrations.

Author : Richard Wilbur
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN 13 : 9780156598057
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mind-reader written by Richard Wilbur and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1976 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Wilbur
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156030793
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems 1943-2004 written by Richard Wilbur and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection presents new and never published poems by Richard Wilbur, author of 17 poetry collections, four children's books, and numerous works in prose and translations. Includes "In a Trackless Woods" and "The Reader", which are CCSS Curriculum Recommended texts.

Author : Mary Jo Salter
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385349807
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nothing by Design written by Mary Jo Salter and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful collection of verse––both light and dark, elegiac and affirmative––from one of our most admired poets. The title Nothing by Design is taken from Salter’s villanelle “Complaint for Absolute Divorce,” in which we’re asked to entertain the thought of a no-fault universe. The wary search for peace, personal and public, is a constant theme in poems as varied as “Our Friends the Enemy,” about the Christmas football match between German and British soldiers in 1914; “The Afterlife,” in which Egyptian tomb figurines labor to serve the dead; and “Voice of America,” where Salter returns to the Saint Petersburg of her exiled friend, the late Joseph Brodsky. A section of charming light verse serves as counterpoint to another series entitled “Bed of Letters,” in which Salter addresses the end of a long marriage. Artfully designed, with a highly intentional music, these poems movingly give form to the often unfathomable, yet very real, presence of nothingness and loss in our lives.

Author : Richard Wilbur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seed Leaves written by Richard Wilbur and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: