Richard Wilbur Writer

Richard Purdy Wilbur (born March 1, 1921) is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989.

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Birth date	March 01, 1921
Birth name	Richard Purdy Wilbur
Birth place	New York City , New York
Education	Harvard University Amherst College

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award	Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
genre	Poetry Children's literature
influenced	Dana Gioia A. E. Stallings Joshua Mehigan
influenced by	Robert Frost Robert Graves W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden
movement	Formalism

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External resources

http://clinton6.nara.gov/1994/10/1994-10-13-president-and-first-lady-honor-artists-and-scholars.html
http://www.choralwiki.org/wiki/index.php/Richard_Wilbur
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/wilbur/love.htm
http://www.kwls.org/littoral/the_world_is_fundamentally_a_g
http://www.kwls.org/podcasts/richard_wilbur_2003
http://www.kwls.org/podcasts/richard_wilbur_2010
http://www.kwls.org/podcasts/richard_wilburs_elizabeth_bish
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/01/16/sugar-maples-january
http://www.nysun.com/arts/voice-that-stands-alone/5555