Poet, professor, and father of three, Richard Wilbur wrote volumes of verse that won such coveted awards as the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Award.Artist Don Almquist, whose drawings appeared in leading magazines, was cited by the Society of Illustrators and the Art Directors Club of New York for his imaginative designs.
18 Ebooks de Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur: Loudmouse
Loudmouse might be small, but he sure makes a lot of noise! His mama wishes he were a bit quieter, but Loudmouse’s booming voice sure comes in handy when there’s a cat on the prowl, a mousetrap …
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Molière: Amphitryon
“Richard Wilbur’s translations of classic French drama are among the undiscovered treasure of our recent literature.”–The Hudson Review
Molière’s late, elegant comedy, based on Plautus’ Roman ver …
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Molière: The Bungler
“A mischievous new translation by the poet Richard Wilbur, [The Bungler] is great good fun and should open the gate for the play to be presented with the regularity it deserves.”—Bruce Weber, The N …
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Jean Baptiste Poquelin De Molière: Lovers’ Quarrels
“I came to see that a line that simply says ‘I love you, ’ at the right point in the show, is entirely adequate, that a great deal of verbal sophistication is not necessarily called for. . . . Spea …
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Jean Baptiste Poquelin De Molière: School for Husbands and The Imaginary Cuckold, or Sganarelle
“My notion of translation is that you try to bring it back alive. . . . If you take on a text which is somehow appropriate to you and which you may already love, what you want to do is to be as per …
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Hollander John Hollander: Rhyme's Reason
In this classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty …
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Moliere: Don Juan
Don Juan, the "Seducer of Seville, " originated as a hero-villain of Spanish folk legend, is a famous lover and scoundrel who has made more than a thousand sexual conquests. One of …
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Richard Wilbur: Poems Of Richard Wilbur
This collection includes Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems, Things of This World, Ceremony and Other Poems, and The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems. One of the best poets of his generation, …
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Richard Wilbur: Anterooms
Poetry lovers and critics will rejoice at the news of this collection from Richard Wilbur, the legendary poet and translator who was called a hero to a new generation of critics by the New York Times …
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Richard Wilbur: Le Cid And The Liar
Richard Wilbur’s translations of the great French dramas have been a boon to acting troupes, students of French literature and history, and theater lovers. He continues this wonderful work with two …
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Moliere: Misanthrope And Tartuffe
The Pulitzer Prize winner’s classic translations of Moliere’s comic masterpieces satirizing shallowness, self-righteousness, and hypocrisy.The Misanthrope is a searching comic study of falsity, …
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Richard Wilbur: School For Wives And The Learned Ladies, By Moliere
The School for Wives concerns an insecure man who contrives to show the world how to rig an infallible alliance by marrying the perfect bride; The Learned Ladies centers on the domestic calamities …
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Pierre Corneille: Theatre of Illusion
A magician conjures a dramatic adventure of romance and intrigue in this seventeenth-century French tragicomedy by the author of Le Cid.In Pierre Corneille’s sparkling play The Theatre of Illusion, …
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Richard Wilbur: Phaedra, By Racine
A brilliant translation of one of the most influential works of French theater, Phaedra is rendered into movingly expressive verse by the Pulitzer Prize-winning translator Richard Wilbur.Jean …
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Moliere: Amphitryon, By Moliere
Wilbur is at the peak of his form in this stellar translation of an unusual Molière play-populated with Greeks and Greco-Roman gods and flavored with the essences of vaudeville, fan-tasy, high …
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Andromache, By Racine
A skillful translation of the classical French tragedy about the captivity of Hector’s wife after her abduction by the son of Achilles. The rhymed couplets retain the simplicity of form and powerful …
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