The Catbird’s Song (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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In a preface to The Catbird’s Song: Prose Pieces 1963- 1995, Richard Wilbur advises the reader not to regard the contents as essays, as if anticipating the criticism that the book is merely a grab bag of fugitive items. Indeed, his “prose pieces” range considerably in length. Elizabeth Bishop receives five pages, Witter Bynner forty-six—but it should be noted that these pieces differ considerably in purpose and occasion, the former, for instance, being a memorial tribute given at a meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the latter an introduction to a volume...

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