About Richard Wilbur
Richard Purdy Wilbur was an American poet and literary translator, and one of the foremost poets 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 gentlemanly elegance. He was acclaimed in his youth as the heir to Robert Frost, translated the verse dramas of Moliere, Corneille, and Racine into rhymed English, collaborated with Leonard Bernstein as the lyricist for the opera Candide, and in his old age acted, particularly through his role in the annual West Chester University Poetry Conference, as a mentor to the younger poets of the New Formalist movement. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987 and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, in 1957 and 1989.
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Awards & Honors
National Book Award
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Robert Frost Medal
United States Poet Laureate
Guggenheim Fellowship
National Medal of Arts
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Rome Prize
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Drama Desk Special Award
Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical
Wallace Stevens Award
PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
PEN Translation Prize
Shelley Memorial Award
St. Louis Literary Award
Knight of the French Order of Academic Palms
Bollingen Prize for Poetry
