Richard Purdy Wilbur (March 1, 1921 – October 14, 2017) was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets of his generation, Wilbur's...
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The National Theatre Company performed a production in 1967 using the Richard Wilbur translation and featuring John Gielgud as Orgon, Robert Stephens as...
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introduces herself to Wilbur. At the same time, the personality Vanessa falls in love with a charming neighbor named Richard. Wilbur finally explains to...
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J. Otto Seibold (section Written by Richard Wilbur)
James Otto Seibold (born 1960) is an American artist and children's book creator. With no formal art training, he was able to sneak into the art world...
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Secretary of the Interior Richard Wilbur (1921–2017), United States Poet Laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Richard C. Wilbur (1936–2020), judge of...
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Curtis as Oronte in a production directed by Stephen Porter using the Richard Wilbur translation. Alec McCowen starred as Alceste at the St. James Theatre...
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Wright brothers (redirect from Wilbur Wright)
Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were American aviation pioneers...
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The Richard Wilbur Award is an American poetry award and publishing prize given by University of Evansville in Indiana. It is named in honor of the American...
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music composed by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics primarily by the poet Richard Wilbur, based on the 1759 novella of the same name by Voltaire. Other contributors...
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Richard Carl Wilbur (July 1, 1936 – December 27, 2020) was a judge of the United States Tax Court from 1974 to 1986. Born in Otisville, New York, to Rosemary...
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1985–1986: Gwendolyn Brooks 1986–1987: Robert Penn Warren 1987–1988: Richard Wilbur 1988–1990: Howard Nemerov 1990–1991: Mark Strand 1991–1992: Joseph Brodsky...
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continue working predominantly in traditional forms, such as Robert Frost, Richard Wilbur, and Anthony Hecht. Formal verse also continued being written by American...
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Butler Yeats John Keats Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Francis Seamus Heaney Richard Wilbur Edward Thomas James Wright Frost was nominated for the Nobel Prize in...
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Hawkins Gene Kelly Pete Seeger Catherine Filene Shouse Wayne Thiebaud Richard Wilbur Young Audiences 1995 Licia Albanese Gwendolyn Brooks B. Gerald and Iris...
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night, penetrating the veil of secrecy, is the murder carried out. Richard Wilbur suggested that the tale is an allegorical representation of Poe's poem...
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being influential to their work. In a 1977 interview with Paris Review, Richard Wilbur criticized confessional poetry, saying, "One of the jobs of poetry is...
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S. Division and over the decades that followed, Richard Wilbur wrote many war poems. One of Wilbur's best-known war poems is Tywater, about the combat...
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Hawkins Gene Kelly Pete Seeger Catherine Filene Shouse Wayne Thiebaud Richard Wilbur Young Audiences 1995 Licia Albanese Gwendolyn Brooks B. Gerald and Iris...
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modern poets who write on prophets or prophecy include Carl Dennis, Richard Wilbur, and Derek Walcott. Self-fulfilling prophecy "Prophecy" in the Online...
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Hawkins Gene Kelly Pete Seeger Catherine Filene Shouse Wayne Thiebaud Richard Wilbur Young Audiences 1995 Licia Albanese Gwendolyn Brooks B. Gerald and Iris...
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Archived from the original on July 26, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2019. "Richard Powers, David W. Blight Among Pulitzer Winners". Shelf Awareness. April...
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Capote, Nancy Friday, Judy Blume, John Hersey, John Malcolm Brinnin, Richard Wilbur, Robert Stone, British prime minister Edward Heath, Prince Michael of...
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Myers Myers, Patrick Rothfuss, L. Sprague de Camp, J. R. R. Tolkien and Richard Wilbur. Modern English alliterative verse covers a wide range of styles and...
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popular in the 21st century, as evidenced by the success of such poets as Richard Wilbur and the various New Formalists. Moreover, although free verse dominates...
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choreography. Called simply Fosse, the revue was conceived and directed by Richard Maltby Jr. and Ann Reinking and choreographed by Reinking and Chet Walker...
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ANTA Playhouse from 18 March to 3 April 1951. A production using the Richard Wilbur translation was staged at the Lyceum Theatre, on Broadway from 16 February...
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Cross (1944) and won a Tony Award for his performance as Polonius opposite Richard Burton's Hamlet (1964). Cronyn bought the screenplay What Nancy Wanted...
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ashcan; / It is hell's handiwork, the wood not hickory, ..." (Junk by Richard Wilbur) "And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain" (The...
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previously. The next year, he played fictional president Richard Monckton (based on Richard Nixon) in the 1977 television miniseries Washington: Behind...
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Tuchman, Nonfiction John Updike, Fiction Colson Whitehead, Fiction Richard Wilbur, Poetry Tennessee Williams, Drama August Wilson, Drama E. O. Wilson...
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