Collected Poems, 1943-2004

"Richard Wilbur is living, white, male and, from all appearances, neither despondent nor mad. This is not a writer to whom glamour will attach easily....In addition to being filled with light, music and wit, and a generous and very native aplomb, these poems form an argument about how one goal of the well-lived life might be composure, rather than the mad flowering of a personal signature....The emergence of a poet like Wilbur as a hero to a new generation of critics is cause for hope: that readers...might rediscover poems written in the spirit of generosity and care, and disciplined by the idea of an uncaptive audience."Wilbur, Richard is the author of 'Collected Poems, 1943-2004 ', published 2004 under ISBN 9780151011056 and ISBN 0151011052.