Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur A Biographical Study / Robert Bagg and Mary Bagg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bagg, Robert, author.

Bagg, Mary, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Prologue

1. Childhood in North Caldwell, New Jersey: "Back where Safety was"

2. Amherst College: "Now that we are in it"

3. World War II, Stateside and in Italy: "War Poetry shd. deal with the one and the Many"

4. World War II in France, Germany, and England: "Oboe Victor Easy Roger"

5. Religion and Wilbur's War Poems: "I Weary of the Confidence of God"

6. The Cambridge Years: "A Young Poet of Promise"

7. Claiming Moliere for his own Native Tongue: "In Short, Trust the Words"

8. Prix de Rome: "The Morning air is all Awash with Angels"

9. Candide and Other Broadway Misadventures: "Glitter and be gay"

10. In the Circle with Lowell, Bishop, and Jarrell: "I Should not be Conveying Competitiveness"

11. Keeping a Difficult Balance: "The Time one Spends Teaching Could be Spent Writing"

12. Overstressed and Overmedicated: "No Stranger to what is Dark in Life"

13. Key West Winters: "Isaiah's Holy Mountain"

14. Life without Charlee: "Night after Night, my Love, I put to sea"

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

About the Authors

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-61376-457-X

OCLC:

1012206982