The beautiful changes and other poems / by Richard Wilbur.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature--Poetry.

Nature.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

vi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 55 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm

Edition:

[First reprinting].

Place of Publication:

New York : Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1954]

Contents:

Cigales

Water walker

Tywater

Mined country

Potato

First snow in Alsace

On the eyes of an SS officer

Place Pigalle

Violet and Jasper

The peace of cities

The Giaour and the Pacha

Up, Jack

In a bird sanctuary

June light

A song

The Walgh-Vogel

The Melongene

Objects

A Dutch courtyard

My father paints the summer

Folk tune

Sun and air

Two songs in a stanza of Beddoes'

The waters

Superiorities

A simplification

A dubious night

L'etoile

Sunlight is imagination

&

O

The regatta

Bell speech

Poplar, Sycamore

Winter spring

Attention makes infinity

Grace

Lightness

For Ellen

Caserta garden

Praise in summer

The beautiful changes.

Notes:

"Copyright 1947 by Richard Wilbur."

"When this collection of poems first appeared in 1947, it was received with high critical praise and served to establish an important new voice in American poetry."--Bookjacket.

Reprint. Originally published: New York : Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. Reprinted by Harcourt, Brace and Co. in 1954.--Cf. Field.

Light blue cloth binding lettered in dark blue on spine.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Cited in:

Field, J. P. : Richard Wilbur, a bibliographical checklist, I.A.1., p. 1

OCLC:

290826