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Title: New and Collected Poems by Richard Wilbur ISBN: 0-15-665491-1 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 18 September, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beauty & Wit
Comment: Richard Wilbur is undoubtedly the best poet of the last half of the 20th century. This book collects all his poetry other than Mayflies (published later) and a couple translations. Buy It!
Rating: 5
Summary: A dynamite collection from a formalist master
Comment: This Pulitzer Prize-winning collection contains all of Wilbur (except his great translations of Moliere and Racine) in reverse chronological order of his books from 1989 to 1954. This is the opposite of most poetry collections, so it seems strange to have the poems get less confident as you read on. Still, the final poem, "The Beautiful Changes," is near-perfect and perfectly sums up Wilbur's paradoxical outlook: beauty is eternal and ever-changing.
Wilbur is old school. He is all about meter and rhyme and beauty. His command of sound and sense is second to none alive. (He has edited a collection of Poe's poetry and is famed for his accurate verse translations of Moliere's plays.)
As I read through this book, I put a star by every poem I liked. Flipping through it now, I see there is a star by almost every poem. I did not find Wilbur as deep or as challenging as Frost or Yeats, poets he is compared to by other reviewers on this site. I can, however, appreciate his mastery of the craft of formal poetry. This is not some bad pseudo-Shelley but really a poetry in the language of our time about the issues of our time.
If you detest rhyme, complex stanzas and short, potent lyrics, by all means avoid Mr. Wilbur. But if you find delight in the artful manipulation of language then you are depriving yourself of happiness in not reading this collection.
Rating: 5
Summary: the man is really good
Comment: it's no wonder wilbur was once the poet laureate or that this collection won the pulitzer, the man is good. he uses the language beautifully (the way english was meant to be in poetry), he has tight control of the rhyme, meter, subject, and words in his poems. where he really shines is in his translations. wilbur is one of the best translators living today.
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Title: Mayflies: New Poems and Translations by Richard Wilbur ISBN: 0151004692 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Voice of the Poet: Richard Wilbur by Richard Wilbur ISBN: 0553756656 Publisher: Random House Audio Voices Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke ISBN: 0385086016 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 December, 1974 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop ISBN: 0374518173 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1984 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1909-1939 by William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christoph Macgowan, Christopher MacGowan ISBN: 0811211878 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: September, 1991 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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