The Poetry of Wilbur (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Richard Wilbur
- First Published: 1947
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets
Critical Evaluation:
It is difficult to assess Richard Wilbur’s lyric poetry in terms of a developing career, a linear working-out and discarding of certain ideas, in the way in which we organize the production of Chaucer’s or Wordsworth’s poetry. He has said that he turned from playful writing to serious poetry because of the experience of potential chaos in the war; but the war is not overpoweringly present in his first book, THE BEAUTIFUL CHANGES, although the European Theater seems to loom in the background of many of these poems and the possibility of war...
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