[Yale-readings] Richard Wilbur reading

[Nancy Kuhl]

>
>Poet Richard Wilbur
>
>Reading from his work
>
>Monday, December 3, 2007 7 p.m.
>St. Anthony Hall
>483 College Street
>
>Sponsored by the John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer Fund and 
>Jonathan Edwards College
>
>Richard Wilbur is one of the major voices in post--WWII American poetry. 
>Educated at Amherst and Harvard, where he maintained a close relationship 
>with the considerably older Robert Frost, Wilbur was an immediate critical 
>success with 1947’s The Beautiful Changes, published when its author was 
>only twenty-six years old. Wilbur’s subsequent volumes­chiefly 1956’s 
>Things of This World, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National 
>Book Award­established him as a poet of immense formal skill and emotional 
>range. Of his poetry, Babette Deutsch in The New York Times Book Review 
>wrote, “here is poetry to be read with the eye, the ear, the heart and the 
>mind.” Such acclaim carries over to his work in other languages and 
>mediums­Wilbur’s translations of French and Italian verse and drama, and 
>particularly his work with Moliere, stand among the greatest achievements 
>in the field; his forays into contemporary theatre (he wrote the lyrics 
>for Bernstein and Hellman’s Candide) have proved revelatory. For nearly 
>thirty years, until 1986, Wilbur taught at Wesleyan University, all the 
>while becoming one of the most recognized poets in the English language. 
>He is the only poet to have won the Pulitzer twice, the second time in 
>1989 for his New and Collected Poems, and has also won the Bollingen 
>Prize, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. 
>After Robert Penn Warren, he served in 1987 as the nation’s second Poet 
>Laureate.
>
>Susan Bianconi
>Associate Editor
>The Yale Review
>susan.bianconi at yale.edu

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