Obituaries
Richard Wilbur, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator who intrigued and delighted generations of readers and theater-goers through his rhyming editions of Moliere and his own verse on memory, writing and nature, has died.
Oct. 16, 2017
Books
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur will be the nation’s second poet laureate, succeeding Robert Penn Warren, the Library of Congress announced today.
April 17, 1987
Four hundred pages of poems by a contemporary writer makes an extraordinarily impressive book to hold in one’s hands, particularly if the poems are by Richard Wilbur.
July 31, 1988
Entertainment & Arts
Poets and novelists have historically looked down on the crass art of writing for the stage, considering it an easy task geared to the masses.
Feb. 8, 1992
Poets and novelists have historically looked down on the crassart of writing for the stage, considering it an easy task geared to the masses.
Jan. 21, 1992
Richard Wilbur admits he’s happy. But the winner of two Pulitzers is far from complacent.
Jan. 19, 2007
Legend has it that at a party in San Francisco back when the Beat Generation was first howling, some barefoot youngsters in distressed jeans were standing around sipping weed, talking with gentlemanly, buttoned-down-collar poet Richard Wilbur.
Oct. 9, 1988
Richard Wilbur, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator, was named Friday as poet laureate of the United States.
April 18, 1987
Timing, coincidence and common friends were everything in the Old Globe Theatre’s acquisition of Richard Wilbur’s latest translation, “The School for Husbands.”
This year’s officially sanctioned poet has heard many times the jokes about the poet laureate having to write odes to the President’s horse.
Oct. 13, 1987