In his introductory note to this handsome and in every sense weighty volume, Richard Wilbur, surveying the fruits of sixty-one years of poems, announces with some pride that “nothing has been thrown out, and any changes of wording are too few and too slight to mention.” Nothing need be thrown out, we might add, because from the outset of his career Wilbur has neve (...)
April 22, 2005
Books
Collected Poems, 1943-2004
Collected Poems 1943-2004Richard WilburHarcourt, $35, 608 pp.
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