Copyright 1991
by The University of Massachusetts Press
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LC 9020353
ISBN 0-87023-741-1
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Michelson, Bruce, 1948 .
Wilbur's poetry : music in a scattering time / Bruce Michelson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87023-741-1 (alk. paper)
1. Wilbur, Richard, 1921 Criticism and interpretation. I. Title.
PS3545.132165Z78 1991
811'.52dc20 9020353
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. |
| Chapter 2, "Words," is a revised and expanded version of "Wilbur's Words," originally published in The Massachusetts Review 23, no. 1 (1982), 1982 by The Massachusetts Review, Inc. |
| Acknowledgment is made to publishers, journals, and individuals for permission to reprint selections from material by Richard Wilbur under copyright. |
| Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. From The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems, 1947 and renewed 1975 by Richard Wilbur: "Attention Makes Infinity" and "The Regatta"; excerpts from ''Water Walker," "Superiorities," "A Simplification," "Caserta Garden," and "The Beautiful Changes." From Ceremony and Other Poems: excerpts from "Year's End," 1949 and renewed 1977, and "Beowulf," 1950 and renewed 1978 by Richard Wilbur. From Things of This World: "The Mill"; excerpts from "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World," "John Chrysostom," "Marginalia," "The Beacon," "For the New Railway Station in Rome," "Charles Baudelaire: L'Invitation au Voyage," and "Beasts," 1956 and renewed 1984, and from "Merlin Enthralled," 1981 by Richard Wilbur. Excerpts from the following translations: The School for Wives, 1971 by Richard Wilbur; Jean Racine: Andromache, 1982 by Richard Wilbur; Jean Racine: Phaedra, 1986 by Richard P. Wilbur; Molire's Tartuffe, 1961 and renewed 1989 by Richard Wilbur; "Introduction" to The Misanthrope, 1955 and renewed 1983 by Richard Wilbur. |
| Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., and Faber and Faber. From Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems, 1961 and renewed 1989 by Richard Wilbur: "Ballade for the Duke of Orleans" and "Stop"; excerpts from "The Undead," "Eight Riddles from Symphosius," "A Christmas Hymn," and "Junk." From The Mind-Reader: New Poems: "In Limbo," 1975; excerpts from "The Fourth of July," 1974, "Rillons, Rillettes," 1966, and from "Cottage Street, 1953," "Teresa," "Children of Darkness," "Flippancies," and "The Prisoner of Zenda," 1976 by Richard Wilbur. From New |
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