As a student at Amherst College in the early 1940s, Wilbur wrote stories, editorials, and poems for his college newspaper and magazine.
Wilbur’s grandfather and great-grandfather were both editors, and Wilbur showed an early interest in journalism. His translations of French verse, especially Voltaire’s Candide and the plays of Moliere and Racine, are also highly regarded by critics his translation of Moliere’s Tartuffe won the 1971 Bollingen Prize.
Vincent Millay Memorial Award, the Prix de Rome Fellowship and many more honors, fellowships and awards for his poetry. He was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Wallace Stevens Award, the Frost Medal, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, two Bollingen Prizes, the T.S. Daniel Boorstin, the Librarian of Congress, announced Wilbur as “a poet for all of us, whose elegant words brim with wit and paradox.” During his lifetime, Richard Wilbur won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his collection Things of This World: Poems in 1957 and a second Pulitzer for New and Collected Poems (1988). One of the most lauded and honored poets of 20th century American verse, Wilbur was the second poet laureate of the United States, succeeding Robert Penn Warren. This catalog page is provided by The Online Books Page, and the literature by Project Gutenberg.Richard Wilbur was born on Main New York City. Minho : Universidade do Minho (Portugal).Readingrooms : Project Gutenberg Reading Rooms (Washington State, USA).Main site Readingrooms UK Mirror Minho Pacific Additional formats may also be available from the main Gutenberg site. Select author names above for additional information and titlesĭownload the ebook in a format below. Candide from Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg Presents Candide by Voltaire contrib.
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