Tuesday, January 16, 2007

News at Eleven: [Richard] Wilbur is regarded, not always

to his liking, as a leading "formalist"--"formal" can be found near "formaldehyde" in the dictionary, he jokes--a master of traditional, tempered verse that can seem old-fashioned in more radical times. "Spare us all word of the weapons, their force and range/the long numbers that rocket the mind," he once wrote.

from The Juneau Empire: Richard Wilbur looks back on rare life of a happy poet

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