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Richard Wilbur “is a poet for all of us, whose elegant words brim with wit and paradox,” announced Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin when the poet succeeded Robert Penn Warren to become the second poet laureate of the United States. Wilbur won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his collection Things of This World: Poems in 1957 and a second Pulitzer for New and Collected Poems. He has won the Wallace Stevens Award, the Frost Medal, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, two Bollingen Prizes, the T.S. Eliot Award, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Award, the Prix de Rome Fellowship and many more honors, fellowships and awards for his poetry. His translations of French verse, especially Voltaire’s Candide and the plays of Moliere and Jean Racine, are also highly regarded by critics; his translation of Moliere’s Tartuffe won the 1971 Bollingen Prize.
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Poems By Richard Wilbur
- Ceremony
- A Simile for Her Smile
- The Death of a Toad
- Five Women Bathing in Moonlight
- Wellfleet: The House
- Conjuration
- Museum Piece
- Driftwood
- We
- To an American Poet Just Dead
- Weather Bird
- Castles and Distances
- A Courtyard Thaw
- A World without Objects Is a Sensible Emptiness
- Part of a Letter
- A Chronic Condition
- Marginalia
- Lamarck Elaborated
- A Plain Song for Comadre
- Gemini
- To Ishtar
- Hamlen Brook
- Trolling for Blues
- Three Riddles from Symphosius
- Under a Tree
- Worlds
- Some Words inside of Words
- For C.
- Advice to a Prophet
- Junk
- Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
- After the Last Bulletins
- Looking into History
- A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra
- Year’s End
- Still, Citizen Sparrow
- The Beautiful Changes
- “Because he swings so neatly through the trees,”
- “When in your neighborhood you hear a neigh,”
- “If you’re fond of road-blocks, this one can’t be beat:”
- A Barred Owl
- Ejaculation, Reply, and Song
- Lying
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