Richard Wilbur, American poet, translator, and essayist (died 2017)

Richard Wilbur

American poet (1921–2017)

Richard Purdy Wilbur was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets, along with his friend Anthony Hecht, of the World War II generation, Wilbur's work, often employing rhyme, and composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and…