Richard Wilbur
American poet (1921-2017)
Biography
Richard Wilbur was born in New York City in 1921 and died in 2017. A poet, translator, and writer, he composed work often employing rhyme and traditional forms. He translated the verse dramas of Molière, Corneille, and Racine into rhymed English and collaborated with Leonard Bernstein as lyricist for the opera Candide. He served as the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress beginning in 1987 and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1957 and 1989.
Occupation
Richard Wilbur is recorded as a university teacher, a translator, a poet and a writer, born in New York (1921–2017).
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