
Description
Wilbur's life has been mistakenly seen as blessed, lacking the drama of his troubled contemporaries. Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur corrects that view and explores how Wilbur's perceived "normality" both enhanced and limited his achievement. The authors augment the life story with details gleaned from access to his unpublished journals, family archives, candid interviews they conducted with Wilbur and his wife, Charlee, and his correspondence with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, John Malcolm Brinnin, James Merrill, and others.
Product Details
Publisher | University of Massachusetts Press |
Publish Date | February 22, 2017 |
Pages | 392 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781625342249 |
Dimensions | 9.2 X 6.0 X 1.3 inches | 1.3 pounds |
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Reviews
"The authors enrich our understanding of Wilbur's poems by discussing them in the context of his life--how his experiences shed light on particular lines."--Scott Knickerbocker, author of Ecopoetics: The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language
"With admirable scholarship and acumen, Robert and Mary Bagg provide much valuable information, from childhood to the present, about the life and work of a great American poet. Many will wish to re-read Richard Wilbur's poetry in the new light of context and circumstance that the Baggs provide."--R. S. Gwynn, poet and critic
"Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur by Robert and Mary Bagg . . . offers a definitive account of Wilbur's wartime experiences and helps us see how they gave rise to his literary achievement."--James Matthew Wilson, The Weekly Standard
"Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur: A biographical study by Robert Bagg and Mary Bagg . . . is a thorough, thoughtful portrait of the supreme US stylist of the past sixty years."--Paul Muldoon, Times Literary Supplement
"A comprehensive, deeply researched, and admiring account of his life. Working from personal journals, years of interviews, letters, and accounts from across the world of American letters, literary scholars Robert and Mary Bagg tell the story of a man and a mind."--The Living Church
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