Life

Richard Wilbur was natural inside Future York City around 1921, & educated at Amherst College and Harvard. He graduated from either Amherst College in 1942, then fought inside Europe during World War II serving in the US Army from either 1943 until 1945. When the teaching stint at Harvard University, he moved to Wesleyan University as Professor of English, a position he occupied for the rest of his career.

Career

Wilbur's number one book, A Beautiful Changes & More Verse form was published around 1947. Since so he has published many volumes of poetry, including Up to date & Collected Poems (Faber, 1989). Wilbur occurs as translator, specializing in the 17th century French dramas of Molière and Jean Racine. Continuing a tradition of Robert Frost and W. H. Auden, Wilbur's poetry finds illumination in everyday experiences. Less easily-known is Wilbur's raid lyric writing. He provided numbers of of the ticket lyrical touches within Leonard Bernstein's 1956 musical, Candide.

His honors include a Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Edna St Vincent Millay award, the Bollingen Prize, and a Chevalier, Ordre National des Palmes Academiques. Within 1987 he became the 2nd poet, when Robert Penn Warren, to be named U.S. Poet Laureate.

Bibliography

1957: Things of This Globe Pulitzer Prize 1961: Advice to a Prophet, & more Poems 1989: New & Gathered Verse form Pulitzer Prize 2000: Mayflies 2004: Collected Verse form, 1943-2004