Richard Wilbur
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Poetry lovers and critics will rejoice at the news of this collection from Richard Wilbur, the legendary poet and translator and whose work continues to be masterful, accomplished, whimsical, fresh, and important.
A yellow-striped, green measuring worm opens Anterooms, a collection filled with poems that are classic Wilbur, that play with myth and form and examine the human condition through reflections on nature and love. Anterooms also features...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006], cc2000.
Language
English
Description
A collection of light-hearted poems centering around words and their opposites. This collection, from a National Book Award and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, includes the full text and drawings from Opposites and More Opposites, plus seven new poems and drawings about differences. Annotation. This collection, from a National Book Award and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, includes the full text and drawings from Opposites and More Opposites, plus...
Author
Series
Harvest book volume HB67
Pub. Date
[1963]
Edition
[First edition].
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
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 Molière's best-known plays, Don Juan was written while Tartuffe was still banned on the stages of Paris, and shared much with the outlawed play. Modern directors transform Don Juan in every new era, as each director finds something new to highlight in this timeless classic....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1965]
Edition
First Harvest edition.
Language
English
Description
In brilliant rhymed couplets, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur renders two of seventeenth-century French playwright Moliere's comic masterpieces into English, capturing not only the form and spirit of the language but also its substance.
The Misanthrope is a searching comic study of falsity, shallowness, and self-righteousness through the character of Alceste, a man whose conscience and and sincerity are too rigorous for his time. In...
Author
Language
English
Description
An imposter cleric gets into the house of the wealthy Orgon, whom he fools into promising him his wealth, position, and his young daughter. The translation into English verse of one of Moliegravere's most masterful and most popular plays. A continuous delight from beginning to end (Richard Eberhart). Introduction by Richard Wilbur.
15) Amphitryon
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Amphitryon by Molière. Translated by A. R. Waller
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