Richard Wilbur
Richard Purdy Wilbur (born March 1, 1921 in New York City , † October 14, 2017 in Belmont , Massachusetts ) was an American poet , writer and translator and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner .
biography
Richard Wilbur was born in New York City to Lawrence Newlson Wilbur and his wife Helen Purdy and grew up in North Caldwell . He published his first poems at the age of eight. He graduated with honors from Amherst College in 1942 and served in the US Army during World War II . After the war , he graduated from Harvard University and became a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows . Richard Wilbur taught at Harvard University (1950-1954), Wesleyan University (1955-1957), and finally at Smith College . He was also a translator, specializing in the 17th century the French comedies of Molière and the dramas of Jean Racine .
On June 20, 1942, Richard Wilbur married Mary Charlotte Hayes Ward in New York City. The marriage had four children, Ellen, Christopher, Nathan and Aaron.
Awards
- 1952 Guggenheim scholarship
- 1957 Pulitzer Prize
- 1957 National Book Award
- 1957 The Millay Award from the Poetry Society of America
- 1957 member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1959 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1963 Guggenheim scholarship
- 1971 Bollingen Prize
- 1973 Shelley Memorial Award
- 1973–1974 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award : Best Musical (for his contribution to the lyrics in Leonard Bernstein's musical Candice , 1956)
- 1973–1974 Outer Critics Circle Award : Best Musical (for his contribution to the lyrics in Leonard Bernstein's musical Candice , 1956)
- 1983 Drama Desk Special Award
- 1987–1988 Poet Laureate
- 1988 Laurence Olivier Award : Musical of the Year (for his contribution to the lyrics in Leonard Bernstein's musical Candice, 1956)
- 1989 Pulitzer Prize
- 1991 The Gold Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1992 Edward MacDowell Medal
- 1994 National Medal of Arts
- 1996 Frost Medal
- 2003 Wallace Stevens Award
- 2006 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
literature
Volumes of poetry
- The Beautiful Changes, and Other Poems (1947)
- Ceremony, and Other Poems (1950)
- A Bestiary (1955)
- Things of This World (1956)
- Advice to a Prophet, and Other Poems (1961)
- Walking to Sleep: New Poems and Translations (1969)
- The Mind-Reader: New Poems (1976)
- New and Collected Poems (1988)
- Mayflies: New Poems and Translations (2000)
- Collected Poems 1943-2004 , (2004) ISBN 1-904130-17-8
- Anterooms: New Poems and Translations (2010)
Biographical works on Richard Wilbur
- Robert Bagg and Mary Bagg: Let us watch Richard Wilbur: a biographical study , Amherst; Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, [2017], ISBN 978-1-62534-224-9
Web links
- Literature by and about Richard Wilbur in the catalog of the German National Library
- Richard Wilbur in nndb (English)
- Biography Richard Wilbur (engl.)
- Biography Richard Wilbur (engl.)
Individual evidence
- ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : US poet and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Wilbur is dead , October 16, 2017.
- ^ Members: Richard Wilbur. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed May 3, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilbur, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wilbur, Richard Purdy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American poet and writer, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 2017 |
| Place of death | Belmont , Massachusetts |