Wilbur, Richard [Purdy]
Wilbur, Richard [Purdy]( 1921– ),after graduation from Amherst (1942) and an M.A. from Harvard (1947) began his teaching career at Harvard (1950–54), continued as a professor at Wesleyan (1955– ), and commenced his career as a poet with the mature and polished lyrics of The Beautiful Changes (1947). His cultivated and formal poetry, although influenced by the French Symbolists, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens, among others, is highly original in the classic, urbane, often witty, and always intellectual works collected in Ceremony (1950), A Bestiary (1955), Things of This World (1956), Poems (1957, Pulitzer Prize), Advice to a Prophet (1961), Walking to Sleep (1969), The Mind-Reader (1976), Seven Poems (1981), and New and Collected Poems (1988), awarded another Pulitzer Prize. Responses (1976) collects essays on poetry and other literary subjects. He...
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