External Websites

The following links to external websites provide more information about the life and works of Richard Wilbur.

Biographical information about Richard Wilbur also can be found on the following websites:

Academy of American Poets External
Biography of Richard Wilbur, samples of his poetry, and links to external resources.
Poetry Foundation External
Biography of Richard Wilbur, bibliography of his writings, and links to more than 30 online poems.

For the latest news and discussions related to Richard Wilbur, see:

A selected list of news articles, interviews, and conversations, arranged in chronological order, follows below.

Selected Articles, News, and Interviews

"Tapestries of Afterthought: Remembering Richard Wilbur" External
The Ellsworth American. November 3, 2017.
"Remembering Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), Part 2" External
Image. November 1, 2017.
"Remembering Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), Part 1" External
Image. October 31, 2017.
"Richard Wilbur Remembered" External
The Weekly Standard. October 30, 2017.
"Redux: Richard Wilbur (1921–2017)" External
The Paris Review. October 24, 2017.
"Remembering Richard Wilbur" External
The American Scholar. October 23, 2017.
"Wilbur Remembered for Founding Wes Press’s Poetry Series" External
Wesleyan University News. October 23, 2017.
"Remembering Richard Wilbur" External
Commonweal. October 19, 2017.
"Richard Wilbur's Remarkable Sleight of Hand" External
New England Public Radio. October 18, 2017.
"The Scope and Precision of Richard Wilbur" External
The New Yorker. October 17, 2017.
"Remembering Poet Richard Wilbur, Who Fused His Effortless Skill With An Honest Complexity" External
WBUR. October 17, 2017.
"Richard Wilbur Obituary" External
The Guardian. October 17, 2017.
"Richard Wilbur in The New Yorker" External
The New Yorker. October 16, 2017.
"9 Richard Wilbur Quotes to Inspire Your Inner Poet to Get to Work" External
Bustle.com. October 16, 2017.
"Remembering Poet Richard Wilbur, 'Heir to Robert Frost'" External
The Christian Science Monitor. October 16, 2017.
"Richard Wilbur, Renowned American Poet And Translator, Dies At 96" External
The Two-Way, NPR. October 16, 2017.
"Richard Wilbur, 96, of Cummington, Pulitzer-winning Poet" External
The Boston Globe. October 16, 2017.
"Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Richard Wilbur Dies At 96" External
New Hampshire Public Radio. October 16, 2017.
"Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Amherst College Graduate Richard Wilbur Remembered for His Humanity" External
MassLive. October 16, 2017.
"The Most Perfect Poet in the English Language: Richard Wilbur is Dead at 96" External
The Book Haven. October 15, 2017.
"Tony-Nominated Lyricist and Translator Richard Wilbur Dies at 96" External
Playbill. October 15, 2017.
"Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet, Dies at 96" External
The Associated Press. October 15, 2017.
"Richard Wilbur, American Poet Who Twice Won the Pulitzer Prize, Dies at 96" External
The Washington Post. October 15, 2017.
"Richard Wilbur, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Winner, Dies at 96" External
The New York Times. October 15, 2017.
"The World is Fundamentally a Great Wonder: A Conversation with Richard Wilbur" External
Littoral (journal of the Key West Literary Seminar). October 21, 2009.
"Celebration of the World: ‘Let Us Watch: Richard Wilbur’" External
Commonweal. August 23, 2017.
"The Poet in Rome: Richard Wilbur in Postwar Italy" External
The Common. Fall 2012.
"Richard Wilbur: A Poet Turns 90" External
Amherst College. Spring 2011.
"Amherst College Pays Tribute to Poet Richard Wilbur with Reading of His Work" External
MassLive. March 2, 2011.
"A Birthday Card for Richard Wilbur" External
The New Republic. March 1, 2011.
"Amherst College to Celebrate Poet Richard Wilbur’s 90th birthday with Readings by Students and Faculty" External
Amherst College. February 16, 2011.
"Richard Wilbur: A Conversation" External
Contemporary Poetry Review. January 2009.
"Poetic Patriarch: The Singular Richard Wilbur Displays a 'Mozartean Felicity' with Verse" External
Harvard Magazine. November/December 2008.
"Former Freight Hopper Makes Good" External
Conversation with D. H. Tracy, Poetry Foundation. April 7, 2006.
"The Overlooked Master: How Poetic History Conspired against Richard Wilbur" External
Slate. November 29, 2004.
"A {Certain} Logic" External
The Atlantic Online. September 9, 1999.
"A Conversation with Richard Wilbur" External
Interviewed by Paul Mariani, Image 12. Winter 1995.
"Forty Years of Richard Wilbur: the Loving Work of An Equilibrist" External
The Virginia Quarterly Review. Summer 1990.
"Washington Talk: Poet Laureate; Avoiding the Pitfalls of Verse for Hire" External
The New York Times. October 27, 1987.
"Richard Wilbur" External
People. October 5, 1987.
"Richard Wilbur, New US Poet Laureate" External
The Christian Science Monitor. April 21, 1987.
"Richard Wilbur is Named Nation's Poet Laureate" External
The New York Times. April 18, 1987.
"The Art of Poetry" External
The Paris Review, no. 72. Winter 1977.
"Richard Wilbur and 'Things of This World'" External
The Harvard Crimson. December 17, 1968.

A selection of radio programs featuring Richard Wilbur or in which Wilbur and his work are discussed.

"Wesleyan Remembers Its Poet Laureate, Richard Wilbur" External
Connecticut Public Radio. March 15, 2018. (1:31)
Richard Wilbur Reads "The Writer" External
NPR. May 26, 2006. (1:52)
"Richard Wilbur" External
92Y Readings. May 4, 1964.

Podcasts and other non-radio audio recordings featuring Richard Wilbur are listed below.

"Stephen Mitchell Reads Richard Wilbur" External
The New Yorker. August 16, 2017. (29:21)
"Richard Wilbur: 2010 Key West Literary Seminary" External
Key West Literary Seminar. January 2010. (1:06:52)
"Richard Wilbur: Great American Poet" External
Writer's Voice. August 13, 2009. (57:21)
"Richard Wilbur: 2003 Key West Literary Seminar" External
Key West Literary Seminar. January 2003. (1:03:12)
"A Reading in Tribute to Elizabeth Bishop" External
Key West Literary Seminar. 1993. (18:22)
Richard Wilbur Reads "The Prisoner of Zenda" External
The Academy of American Poets.
Audio of Wilbur Reading Selected Poems External
Internet Poetry Archive.

Videos of Richard Wilbur reading and discussing his work can be found through the following links:

YouTube - "Richard Wilbur" search results External
Numerous videos of Richard Wilbur reading and performing his work appear through this YouTube search on his name.
"Amherst Reads - Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur: A Biographical Study" External
Amherst College. August 2, 2017. (1:03:24)
"Richard Wilbur with Roger Rosenblatt" External
92nd Street Y. May 20, 2009. (8:10)
"Some Words Inside of Words" External
Poetry Everywhere. (2:59)
"My artistic parents" External
Web of Stories. May 12, 2004. (5:00)

Selected online reviews of Richard Wilbur's poetry, prose, and children's books appear below.

Poetry Reviews

Anterooms (2010)

Collected Poems, 1943–2004 (2004)

Mayflies: New Poems and Translations (2000)

New and Collected Poems (1988)

Publishers Weekly External

The Mind-Reader: New Poems (1976)

Walking to Sleep: New Poems and Translations (1969)

New York Times External

Prose

The Catbird's Song: Prose Pieces, 1963–1995 (1997)

The Georgia Review External

Responses: Prose Pieces, 1953–1976 (1976)

Publishers Weekly External

Richard Wilbur, U.S. Poet Laureate: A Resource Guide

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