Richard Wilbur was born March 1, 1921, in New York City. His father, Lawrence
Wilbur, was an artist; his mother came from a family prominent in journalism,
a direction which he was to follow briefly later. Two years after his birth,
the family took a very old house in North Caldwell, New Jersey, and he
developed there, he was said, a taste for country things. He worked on student
newspapers at his high school and then at Amherst College. During the Second
World War he served at Cassino, Annzio, and the Siegfried Line. After the war
he took an M.A. at Harvard and was elected a member of the Society of Fellows,
where for three years he devoted himself to verse. He then taught at Harvard
(1950-54), Wellesley (1955-57), and finally at Wesleyan. Wilbur has made
splendid translations of Molière's The Misanthrope and Tartuffe,
and with Lillian Hellman he wrote lyrics for a comic opera, Candide,
based on Voltaire's novel.
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Ellmann, Richard and Robert O'Clair. Modern Poems: An
Introduction to Poetry.
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1973, p. 366.
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