Richard Wilbur

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{{Short description|American poet (1921–2017)}}
{{for|the United States Tax Court judge|Richard C. Wilbur}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2017}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Richard Wilbur
| image = Richard Wilbur 1964 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Wilbur in 1964
| birth_name = Richard Purdy Wilbur
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1921|3|1}}
| birth_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|10|14|1921|3|1}}
| death_place = [[Belmont, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| occupation = Poet
| education = [[Amherst College]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) [[Harvard University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])
| spouse = Mary Hayes Ward (1942–2007)
| children = 4
| genre = [[Poetry]], [[children's books]], [[drama]], [[French literature]]
| movement = [[Formalism (literature)|Formalism]]
| notableworks = ''Things of This World''
| awards = [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] (1957, 1989) [[Robert Frost Medal]] (1996)
}}
'''Richard Purdy Wilbur''' (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets of the [[Greatest Generation|World War II generation]], Wilbur's work, often employing rhyme, and composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentlemanly elegance. He was acclaimed in his youth as the heir to [[Robert Frost]], translated the [[verse drama]]s of [[Moliere]], [[Corneille]], and [[Jean Racine|Racine]] into rhymed English,<ref> King, Brendan D., ''The Poet and the Counterrevolution: Richard Wilbur, the Free Verse Revolution, and the Revival of Rhymed Poetry'', [[St Austin Review]], March/April 2020, ''American Literature in the Twentieth Century'', pp. 15–19.</ref> collaborated with [[Leonard Bernstein]] as the [[lyricist]] for the opera ''[[Candide (operetta)|Candide]]'',<ref name="MTI">[http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000016 Music Theatre International. ''Candide (1973)'']</ref> and in his old age acted, particularly through his role in the annual [[West Chester University Poetry Conference]], as a mentor to the younger poets of the [[New Formalism|New Formalist movement]].<ref> King, Brendan D., ''The Poet and the Counterrevolution: Richard Wilbur, the Free Verse Revolution, and the Revival of Rhymed Poetry'', [[St Austin Review]], March/April 2020, ''American Literature in the Twentieth Century'', po. 15–19.</ref> He was appointed the second [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress]] in 1987 and received the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] twice, in 1957 and 1989.<ref>{{cite web | title=Poet Laureate Timeline: 1981–1990 | url= https://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate-1981-1990.html | publisher = [[Library of Congress]] | year = 2008 | access-date = January 1, 2009}}</ref>

==Early years==
Wilbur was born in [[New York City]] on March 1, 1921, and grew up in [[North Caldwell, New Jersey]].<ref name=nytobit/> In 1938 he graduated from [[Montclair High School (New Jersey)|Montclair High School]], where he worked on the school newspaper.<ref>[http://www.bookrags.com/biography/richard-purdy-wilbur-dlb/ Richard (Purdy) Wilbur], from the ''[[Dictionary of Literary Biography]]''. Accessed January 1, 2012. "Wilbur showed an early interest in writing, which he has attributed to his mother's family because her father was an editor of the Baltimore Sun and her grandfather was an editor and a publisher of small papers aligned with the Democratic party. At Montclair High School, from which he graduated in 1938, Wilbur wrote editorials for the school newspaper."</ref> At [[Amherst College]], he also displayed his "ample literary gifts" as one of the "sharpest" reporters for the college newspaper, edited by upperclassman [[Robert Morgenthau]].<ref name="Meier">{{cite book |last1=Meier |first1=Andrew |title=Morgenthau |year= 2022 |publisher=Random House |isbn=9781400068852 |pages=276, 299 |edition=First}}</ref> After graduation in 1942, he served in the [[United States Army]] from 1943 to 1945 during [[World War II]]. He attended graduate school at [[Harvard University]]. Wilbur taught at [[Wellesley College]], then [[Wesleyan University]] for two decades and at [[Smith College]] for another decade. At Wesleyan he was instrumental in founding the award-winning poetry series of the [[Wesleyan University Press]].<ref>{{citation | publisher =[[University of Illinois]] | url =http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/wilbur/bio.htm | title =Wilbur biography | access-date =May 9, 2009 | archive-date =July 20, 2019 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20190720100402/http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/wilbur/bio.htm | url-status =dead }}</ref><ref name="NYT">{{citation |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | access-date = July 18, 2011 | url = https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05E2D6143FF935A25753C1A9639C8B63&sel=&spon=&pagewanted=all |title=The University of Verse | first = Jane | last = Gordon | date = October 16, 2005}}</ref> He received two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry and taught at Amherst College as late as 2009,<ref>{{citation | chapter-url = https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/rpwilbur42 | publisher =[[Amherst College]] | chapter = Wilbur | title = Faculty staff}}.</ref> where he also served on the editorial board of the literary magazine ''[[The Common (magazine)|The Common]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecommononline.org/about|title=About The Common – The Common|website=www.thecommononline.org|date=July 15, 2016}}</ref><ref name="NYT"/><ref name="nytobit">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/obituaries/richard-wilbur-poet-laureate-and-pulitzer-winner-dies-at-96.html |title=Richard Wilbur, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Winner, Dies at 96 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 16, 2017 |access-date=October 16, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | first=Mark | last = Ferney | url = https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2017/10/15/wilbur/n2ZJZF17OJGN1nHQOjUBWP/story.html |title=Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer-winning poet, dies at 96 |newspaper=[[Boston Globe]]|date=October 15, 2017 |access-date= October 15, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/richard-wilbur-in-the-new-yorker |title=Richard Wilbur in the New Yorker |date=October 16, 2017 |first1=Hannah |last1=Aizenman |magazine=[[The New Yorker]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-richard-wilbur-20171016-story.html |title=Richard Wilbur, Who Twice Won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Dies at 96|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=October 16, 2017 |access-date=September 28, 2019|quote=The U.S. poet laureate in 1987–88, Wilbur was often cited as an heir to Robert Frost and other New England writers and was the rare versifier to enjoy a following beyond the poetry community. He was regarded – not always favorably – as a leading “formalist,” a master of old-fashioned meter and language who resisted contemporary trends. Wilbur was also known for his translations, especially of Moliere, Racine and other French playwrights.}}</ref>

==Literary career==
When only eight years old, Wilbur published his first poem in ''John Martin's Magazine''.<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3509/the-art-of-poetry-no-22-richard-wilbur |title=Richard Wilbur, The Art of Poetry No. 22 |journal=[[The Paris Review]] |series=Interviews |date=Winter 1977 |volume=Winter 1977 |issue=72 |access-date=December 24, 2014}}.</ref> His first book, ''The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems'', appeared in 1947. Thereafter he published several volumes of poetry, including ''New and Collected Poems'' (Faber, 1989). Wilbur was also a translator, specializing in the 17th century French comedies of [[Molière]] and dramas of [[Jean Racine]]. His translation of ''[[Tartuffe]]'' has become the play's standard English version and has been presented on television twice (a 1978 production is available on DVD). Wilbur also published several children's books, including ''Opposites'', ''More Opposites'', and ''The Disappearing Alphabet.'' In 1959 he became the general editor of The Laurel Poetry Series ([[Dell Publishing]]).

Continuing the tradition of [[Robert Frost]] and [[W. H. Auden]], Wilbur's poetry finds illumination in everyday experiences. Less well-known is Wilbur's foray into writing theatre [[lyrics]]. He provided lyrics to several songs in [[Leonard Bernstein]]'s 1956 [[musical theater|musical]] ''[[Candide (musical)|Candide]]'', including the famous "[[Glitter and Be Gay]]" and "Make Our Garden Grow". He also produced several unpublished works, including "The Wing" and "To Beatrice".

His honors included the 1983 [[Drama Desk Special Award]] and the [[PEN Translation Prize]] for his translation of ''[[The Misanthrope]]'', the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] and the [[National Book Award]] for ''Things of This World'' (1956),<ref name=nba1957>
[https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1957 "National Book Awards – 1957"]. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved 2012-03-02.
 (With acceptance speech by Wilbur and essay by Patrick Rosal from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)</ref>
the [[Edna St Vincent Millay]] award, the [[Bollingen Prize]], and the Chevalier, {{lang|fr|[[Ordre des Palmes Académiques]]}}. He was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1959.<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter W| url= http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterW.pdf | publisher =[[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] | access-date = April 7, 2011}}</ref> In 1987 Wilbur became the second poet, after [[Robert Penn Warren]], to be named [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress|U.S. Poet Laureate]] after the position's title was changed from Poetry Consultant. In 1988 he won the [[Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry]] and in 1989 he won a second Pulitzer, for his ''New and Collected Poems.'' On October 14, 1994, he received the [[National Medal of Arts]] from President [[Bill Clinton]]. He also received the [[PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation]] in 1994. In 2003 Wilbur was inducted into the [[American Theater Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/82135-2004-Inductees-of-Theatre-Hall-of-Fame-Announced|title=2004 Inductees of Theatre Hall of Fame Announced|publisher=www.playbill.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140331082301/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/82135-2004-Inductees-of-Theatre-Hall-of-Fame-Announced|archive-date=March 31, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 2006 he won the [[Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize]]. In 2010 he won the [[National Translation Award]] for the translation of ''The Theatre of Illusion'' by [[Pierre Corneille]]. In 2012 [[Yale University]] conferred an honorary Doctor of Letters on Wilbur. He had a literary correspondence with Catholic nun, literary critic and poet [[M. Bernetta Quinn]].<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last=Ripatrazone |first=Nick |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2xkjp9p |title=The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America |date=2023 |publisher=1517 Media |isbn=978-1-5064-7112-9 |chapter=Sister Mary Bernetta Quinn: Woman of Letters |doi=10.2307/j.ctv2xkjp9p.7|jstor=j.ctv2xkjp9p }}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Mary Bernetta Quinn Papers, 1937–1998 |url=https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04307/ |access-date= |website=Wilson Special Collections Library of UNC-Chapel Hill}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Sister Mary Bernetta Quinn papers |url=https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/1438 |url-status= |access-date= |website=Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University}}</ref>

Wilbur died on October 14, 2017, at a nursing home in [[Belmont, Massachusetts]], from natural causes aged 96.<ref name="nytobit"/><ref>{{cite news | first=Mark | last = Ferney | url = https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2017/10/15/wilbur/n2ZJZF17OJGN1nHQOjUBWP/story.html |title=Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer-winning poet, dies at 96 |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]|date= October 15, 2017 |access-date= October 15, 2017}}</ref>

==Awards and honors==
During his lifetime, Wilbur received numerous awards in recognition of his work, including:

* [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] for Creative Arts (1952, 1963)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/ |title=All Fellows |author= |publisher=[[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]] |access-date=July 18, 2016 |archive-date=July 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707071610/http://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Poetry Society of America]] Millay Award (1957)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/about/mission/ |title=A Century of American Poetry |author= |website=Poetry Society of America |access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref>
* [[National Book Award for Poetry]] (1957) for ''Things of This World''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1957#.V41tqmQrK2w |title=National Book Awards – 1957 |author= |website=National Book Foundation |access-date=July 18, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] (1957, 1989) for ''Things of This World'', ''New and Collected Poems''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/224 |title=Poetry |author= |website=The Pulitzer Prizes |access-date=July 18, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Bollingen Prize]] for Poetry (1971)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bollingen.yale.edu/ |title=The Bollingen Prize for Poetry |author= |publisher=[[Yale University]] |access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Shelley Memorial Award]] (1973) <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/frost_and_shelley/shelley_winners/ |title=Shelley Winners |author= |website=Poetry Society of America |access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref>
* [[New York Drama Critics Award|New York Drama Critics' Circle Award]] for Best Musical (1973–1974) for ''Candide''<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.dramacritics.org/dc_pastawards.html#1974 |title=Past Awards |author= |publisher=[[New York Drama Critics' Circle]] |access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Outer Critics Circle Award]] for Best Musical (1973–1974) for ''Candide''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://outercritics.org/award-results/awards-for-1973-1974/ |title=Awards for 1973–1974 |author= |website=Outer Critics Circle |access-date=July 19, 2016 |archive-date=May 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160503103843/http://outercritics.org/award-results/awards-for-1973-1974/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[Drama Desk Special Award]] (1983) for translation of ''The Misanthrope''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dramadesk.org/awards |title=Awards |author= |website=Drama Desk |access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref>
* [[United States Poet Laureate]] (1987–1988)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/poetslaureate/ |title=United States Poets Laureate: A Guide to Online Resources |author=Peter Armenti |date=June 10, 2015 |website=Library of Congress |access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Laurence Olivier Award]] for Musical of the Year (1988) for ''Candide''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olivierawards.com/winners/view/item98523/olivier-winners-1988/ |title=Olivier Winners 1988 |author= |website=Olivier Awards |access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref>
* [[St. Louis Literary Award]] from the [[Saint Louis University]] Library Associates<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html|title=Saint Louis Literary Award - Saint Louis University|website=www.slu.edu|access-date=July 26, 2016|archive-date=April 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190427180855/http://www.slu.edu/libraries/associates/award.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://lib.slu.edu/about/associates/literary-award |title=Recipients of the St. Louis Literary Award |author=Saint Louis University Library Associates |access-date=July 25, 2016}}</ref>
* [[American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals|American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal]] in Poetry (1991)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Gold%20Literature |title=Gold Medal |author= |publisher=[[American Academy of Arts and Letters]] |access-date=July 19, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817092924/http://www.artsandletters.org/awards2_popup.php?abbrev=Gold%20Literature |archive-date=August 17, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>
* Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]] (1995)<ref>{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url= https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/}}</ref>
* [[PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation]] (1994)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pen.org/penralph-manheim-medal-translation-winners |title=PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation Winners |author= |website=PEN America |date=April 29, 2016 |access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Robert Frost Medal|Frost Medal]] (1996)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/awards/frost_and_shelley/frost_winners/ |title=Frost Medalists |author= |website=Poetry Society of America |access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref>
* [[List of winners of the Wallace Stevens Award|Wallace Stevens Award]] (2003)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/wallace-stevens-award |title=Wallace Stevens Award |author= |website=Academy of American Poets |access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize]] (2006)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/programs/foundation/awards/detail/ruth-lilly-poetry-prize |title=Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize |author= |website=Poetry Foundation |access-date=July 19, 2016}}</ref>
* [[Edward MacDowell Medal]] (1992)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-news/8447621/MacDowell-Medal-winners-1960-2011.html |title=MacDowell Medal winners {{mdash}} 1960{{ndash}}2011 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |access-date=December 6, 2019}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
===Poetry collections===
* 1947: ''The Beautiful Changes, and Other Poems''<ref name="poetryfoundation.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/richard-wilbur|title=Richard Wilbur|date=October 18, 2017|website=Poetry Foundation}}</ref>
* 1950: ''Ceremony, and Other Poems''<ref name="poetryfoundation.org"/>
* 1955: ''A Bestiary''<ref name="poetryfoundation.org"/>
* 1956: ''Things of This World'' – won [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] and [[National Book Award]], both in 1957<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/17/richard-wilbur-obituary|title=Richard Wilbur obituary|first=Michael|last=Carlson|date=October 17, 2017|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>
* 1961: ''Advice to a Prophet, and Other Poems''<ref name="poetryfoundation.org"/>
* 1969: ''Walking to Sleep: New Poems and Translations''<ref name="auto"/>
* 1976: ''The Mind-Reader: New Poems''<ref name="poetryfoundation.org"/>
* 1988: ''New and Collected Poems'' – won [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] in 1989<ref name="auto"/>
* 2000: ''Mayflies: New Poems and Translations''<ref name="poetryfoundation.org"/>
* 2004: ''Collected Poems, 1943–2004''<ref name="poetryfoundation.org"/>
* 2010: ''Anterooms''<ref name="poetryfoundation.org"/>

===Editor===
* 2003 ''[[Edgar Allan Poe]]: Poems and Poetics''<ref name="Poe">{{cite web |title=Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and Poetics |url=https://loa.org/books/196-poems-and-poetics |website=Library of America}}</ref>

===Selected poems available online===
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* {{cite magazine |title=Some Words Inside of Words |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/06/some-words-inside-of-words/303448/ |magazine=[[The Atlantic]] |date=June 2004 |access-date=October 21, 2017}}
* {{cite magazine |title=Sugar Maples, January |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/01/16/sugar-maples-january |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=January 16, 2012 |access-date=November 12, 2014}}
{{refend}}

===Prose collections===
* 1976: ''Responses: Prose Pieces, 1953–1976''<ref name="poetryfoundation.org"/>
* 1997: ''The Catbird's Song: Prose Pieces, 1963–1995''<ref name="poetryfoundation.org"/>

===Translated plays from other authors===
====Translated from Molière====
* ''[[The Misanthrope]]'' (1955/1666)<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1607 | title = The Misanthrope | year = 1966 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 978-0-8222-1389-5}}.</ref>
* ''[[Tartuffe]]'' (1963/1669)<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1606 | title = Tartuffe | year = 1991 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 978-0-8222-1111-2}}.</ref>
* ''[[The School for Wives]]'' (1971/1662)<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1505 | title = The School for Wives | date = October 1991 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 978-0-8222-0999-7}}.</ref>
* ''[[Les Femmes Savantes|The Learned Ladies]]'' (1978/1672)<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1407 | title = The Learned Ladies | year = 1977 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 978-0-8222-0648-4}}.</ref>
* ''[[The School for Husbands]]'' (1992/1661)<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=934 | title = School for Husbands | date = October 1991 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 978-0-8222-0998-0}}.</ref>
* ''[[The Imaginary Cuckold]], or Sganarelle'' (1993/1660)<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=885 | title = The Imaginary Cuckold, or Sganarelle | year = 1993 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 978-0-8222-1331-4}}.</ref>
* ''[[Amphitryon (Molière play)|Amphitryon]]'' (1995/1668)<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=783 | title = Amphitryon | year = 1995 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 978-0-8222-1439-7}}.</ref>
* ''[[L'Étourdi ou les Contretemps|The Bungler]]'' (2000/1655)<ref>{{citation | url = https://archive.org/details/bungler00jean | title = The Bungler | year = 2000 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 978-0-8222-1747-3 | url-access = registration }}.</ref>
* ''[[Dom Juan|Don Juan]]'' (2001/1665)<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=2771 | title = Don Juan | year = 1998 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 978-0-8222-1657-5}}.</ref>
* ''Lovers' Quarrels'' (2009/1656)<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=3762 | title = Lovers' Quarrels | year = 2007 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 978-0-8222-2159-3}}.</ref>
* ''Molière: The Complete Richard Wilbur Translations'' (2021)<ref name="LOA">{{cite web |title=Forthcoming: Summer and Fall 2021 |url=https://loa.org/news-and-views/1774-forthcoming-summer-and-fall-2021 |website=Library of America |access-date=23 April 2023}}</ref>

====From Jean Racine====
* ''[[Andromaque|Andromache]]'' (1982/1667)<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1286 | title = Andromache | year = 1982 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 978-0-8222-0048-2}}.</ref>
* ''[[Phèdre|Phaedra]]'' (1986/1677)<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1067 | title = Phædra | year = 1986 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 978-0-8222-0890-7}}.</ref>
* ''[[Les Plaideurs|The Suitors]]'' (2001/1668)<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=2996 | title = The Suitors | year = 2001 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 978-0-8222-1804-3}}.</ref>

====From Pierre Corneille====
* ''[[L'Illusion Comique|The Theatre of Illusion]]'' (2007/1636)<ref>{{citation | url = https://archive.org/details/theatreofillusio00corn | publisher = Mariner books | title = The Theatre of Illusion | date = April 2, 2007 | last = Corneille | first = Pierre | isbn = 978-0-15-603231-5 | url-access = registration }}.</ref>
* ''[[Le Cid]]'' (2009/1636)<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=4258 | title = Le Cid | year = 2012 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 978-0-8222-2501-0}}.</ref>
* ''[[The Liar (Corneille play)|The Liar]]'' (2009/1643)<ref>{{citation | url = http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=4259 | title = The Liar | year = 2012 | publisher = Dramatists Play Service | isbn = 978-0-8222-2502-7}}.</ref>

==References==
===Citations===
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==Further reading==
* {{Cite book |title=Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur: A Biographical Study |first1=Robert |last1=Bagg |first2=Mary |last2=Bagg |year=2017 |publisher=University of Massachusetts Press |location=Amherst |isbn=978-1625342249 }}
* Brodsky, Joseph. On Richard Wilbur. ''The American Poetry Review'', Vol. 2, No. 1 (Jan./ Feb. 1973), p. 52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40742806
* King, Brendan D. The Poet and the Counterrevolution: Richard Wilbur, the Free Verse Revolution, and the Revival of Rhymed Poetry. ''[[St Austin Review]]'', March/April 2020, "American Literature in the Twentieth Century", pp. 15–19.
* ''Richard Wilbur and the Things of This World'', a documentary film by Ralph Hammann, 2017, Film Odysseys, Ltd. To be released.

==External links==
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* [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/richard-wilbur Richard Wilbur] on [http://www.poetryfoundation.org Poetry Foundation]
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*[http://www.kwls.org/littoral/the_world_is_fundamentally_a_g/ "The World is Fundamentally a Great Wonder"]: Richard Wilbur in conversation with Arlo Haskell, October 21, 2009. ''Littoral''.
*Readings by Wilbur at the Key West Literary Seminar: [http://www.kwls.org/podcasts/richard_wilburs_elizabeth_bish/ 1993], [http://www.kwls.org/podcasts/richard_wilbur_2003/ 2003], [http://www.kwls.org/podcasts/richard_wilbur_2010/ 2010]
*{{YouTube|id=KBvBKRBp49E|title=Lincolnshire Poacher by The Spinners}}
*[http://www.nysun.com/arts/voice-that-stands-alone/5555/ Ernest Hilbert reviews Richard Wilbur's ''Collected Poems'' for the ''New York Sun'']
*[http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/wilbur/love.htm Essays on a Wilbur's "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807125236/http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/wilbur/love.htm |date=August 7, 2008 }}
*{{cite journal| url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3509/the-art-of-poetry-no-22-richard-wilbur| title=Richard Wilbur, The Art of Poetry No. 22|author1=Helen McCloy Ellison |author2=Ellesa Clay High |author3=Peter A. Stitt | journal=The Paris Review| date=Winter 1977 | volume=Winter 1977| issue=72}}
*[http://www.choralwiki.org/wiki/index.php/Richard_Wilbur Settings of Richard Wilbur's poetry in the Choral Public Domain Library]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6LdgHqKpdE Wilbur's "Then" (1950)] – Composer [[Jonathan Elliott]] sets Wilbur's poem to music for Monadnock Music; also featuring Wilbur's reading of the poem
*[https://archivesspace.amherst.edu/repositories/2/resources/242 Richard P. Wilbur (AC 1942) Papers] at the Amherst College Archives & Special Collections

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