I don’t remember when I first starting reading Richard Wilbur’s poetry. But his death on October 14th, at age ninety-six, has returned me to my favorites among his immense output of poems. At the top ...

I was introduced to the poetry of Richard Wilbur, the celebrated poet who died Saturday at the age of 96, by my favorite undergraduate teacher at Queens College, Mary Doyle Curran. She wasn’t supposed ...

Richard Wilbur, an esteemed poet who divided critics but won two Pulitzer prizes for his elegant, classically inspired verse, has died at the age of 96. The poet’s death was confirmed by his son, ...

The year 1947, when Richard Wilbur, who died on Saturday, at ninety-six, published his first collection, also gave us Cleanth Brooks’s “The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry,” in ...

Oct. 16 (UPI) --Richard Wilbur, a national poet laureate and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, died at age 96 in Belmont, Mass. Wilbur, often cited as an heir to Robert Frost, was known for his more ...

Not everyone appreciated Richard Wilbur. The second poet laureate of the United States, he was the recipient of multiple Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award. Still, plenty of readers thought he ...

Wilbur, who turns 90 next year, has stood for decades in the front rank of American poets who know how to use traditional forms: his confident rhymes and stanzas are second to none, their poise ...

In case you missed it: Richard Wilbur, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, translator and lyricist died at the age of 96. Wilbur is known as one of the most preeminent poets of the 20th century, ...

Poet Richard Wilbur won two Pulitzer Prizes and was the second poet to hold the title of Poet Laureate of the United States. He died Saturday at the age of 96. The poet Richard Wilbur died over the ...

Richard Wilbur, a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and former U.S. poet laureate, poses beside his manual typewriter in his studio in Cummington, Mass., on July 18, 2006. (Nancy ...