Richard Wilbur

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POETRY

• The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems, Reynal, 1947.
• Ceremony and Other Poems, Harcourt (Boston), 1950.
• Things of This World: Poems, Harcourt, 1956.
• Poems, 1943-1956, Faber (London), 1957.
• Advice to a Prophet, and Other Poems, 1961.
• The Poems of Richard Wilbur, Harcourt, 1963.
• Walking to Sleep: New Poems and Translations, Harcourt, 1969.
• Seed Leaves: Homage to R. F. (poem), limited edition, David R. Godine, 1974.
• The Mind-Reader: New Poems, Harcourt, 1976.
• Seven Poems, Abbatoir Editions, 1981.
• New and Collected Poems, Harcourt, 1988.
• Mayflies: New Poems and Translations, Harcourt (New York City), 2000.
• Collected Poems: 1943-2004, Harcourt (San Diego, CA), 2004.

PLAYS AND TRANSLATIONS

• (Translator) Moliere, The Misanthrope: Comedy in Five Acts, 1666 (also see below; produced in Cambridge, MA, by the Poet’s Theatre, October 25, 1955; produced off-Broadway at Theatre East, November 12, 1956), Harcourt, 1955.
• (Lyricist with John Latouche, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, and Leonard Bernstein) Voltaire, Candide: A Comic Operetta Based on Voltaire’s Satire (musical; based on adaptation by Lillian Hellman; music by Leonard Bernstein; produced on Broadway at Martin Beck Theatre, December 1, 1956; produced on the West End at Saville Theatre, April 30, 1959), Random House, 1957.
• (Translator) Philippe de Thaun, The Pelican from a Bestiary of 1120 (poem), privately printed, 1963.
•  (Translator) Moliere, Tartuffe: Comedy in Five Acts, 1669 (also see below; produced in Milwaukee, WI, at Fred Miller Theatre, January, 1964; produced on Broadway at ANTA Theatre, January 14, 1965), Harcourt, 1963.
• (Translator) Moliere, The Misanthrope [and] Tartuffe, Harcourt, 1965.
• (Translator) Moliere, The School for Wives: Comedy in Five Acts, 1662 (produced on Broadway at Lyceum Theatre, February 16, 1971 ), Harcourt, 1971.
• (Translator) Moliere, The Learned Ladies: Comedy in Five Acts, 1672 (produced in Williamstown, MA, at the Williamstown Festival Theatre, 1977), Harcourt, 1978.
• (Translator) Jean Racine, Andromache: Tragedy in Five Acts, 1667, Harcourt, 1982.
• (Translator) Moliere: Four Comedies, Harcourt, 1982.
• (Translator) The Whale and Other Uncollected Translations, BOA Editions, 1982.
•  (Translator) Racine, Phaedra, Harcourt, 1986.
• (Translator) Moliere, The School for Husbands (also see below), Harcourt, 1992.
• (Translator) The Imaginary Cuckold (also see below), Dramatists Play Service, 1993.
• (Translator) Moliere, The School for Husbands & Sganarelle, or The Imaginary Cuckold, Harcourt, 1994.
• (Translator) Moliere, Amphitryon, Dramatists Play Service (New York City), 1995.
• (Translator) Baudelaire, L’invitation au voyage, or Invitation to the Voyage: A Poem from the Flowers of Evil, 1854, Little, Brown (Boston), 1997.
• (Translator) Moliere, Don Juan, Dramatists Play Service (New York City), 1998, published as Don Juan: Comedy in Five Acts, 1665, Harcourt, 2001.

EDITOR

• (With Louis Untermeyer and Karl Shapiro) Modern American and Modern British Poetry, revised abridged edition, Harcourt, 1955.
• A Bestiary (anthology), Pantheon, 1955.
• (And author of introduction and notes) Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Poems, Dell, 1959.
• (Editor, with others) Major Writers of America, Harcourt, 1962.
• (With Alfred Harbage, and author of introduction) William Shakespeare, Poems, Penguin, 1966, revised edition published as Shakespeare, the Narrative Poems and Poems of Doubtful Authenticity, 1974.
• (And author of introduction) Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, David R. Godine, 1974.
• (And author of introduction) Witter Bynner, Selected Poems, Farrar, Straus, 1978.

OTHER

• (Contributor) Gygory Kepes, editor, The New Landscape in Art and Science, Paul Theobald, 1955.
• Poems (recording), Spoken Arts, 1959. (With Robert Hillyer and Cleanth Brooks) Anniversary Lectures, U.S. Government Printing Office (Washington, DC), 1959.
• (With Louise Bogan and Archibald MacLeish) Emily Dickinson: Three Views (criticism), Amherst College Press, 1960.
• Advice to a Prophet, and Other Poems, Harcourt, 1961.
• (Contributor) Don C. Allen, editor, The Moment of Poetry, Johns Hopkins Press, 1962
• Loudmouse (juvenile), illustrated by Don Almquist, Collier (London), 1963,
• Prince Souvanna Phouma: An Exchange between Richard Wilbur and William Jay Smith (poem), limited edition, Phoenix Book Shop, 1968.
•  Digging to China: Poem (Child Study Association book list; first published in Things of This World), Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1970.
• (Self-illustrated) Opposites: Poems and Drawings (children’s poems), Harcourt, 1973. Harcourt (New York City), 1982.
• Responses: Prose Pieces, 1953-1976, Harcourt, 1976, expanded edition published by Story Line Press (Ashland, OR), 2000.
• (Lyricist) On Freedom’s Ground (cantata; music by William Schuman), produced in New York City at the Lincoln Center for the Statue of Liberty Centennial, October, 1986.
• Conversations with Richard Wilbur, edited by William Butts, University Press of Mississippi, 1990.
• (Self-illustrated) More Opposites (children’s poems), Harcourt, 1991.
• (Author of foreword) Rollie McKenna, A Life in Photography, Knopf (New York City), 1991.
• A Game of Catch, illustrations by Barry Moser, Harcourt, 1994.
• Runaway Opposites, selections illustrated by Henrik Drescher, Harcourt, 1995.
• The Catbird’s Song: Prose Pieces, 1963-1995, Harcourt, 1997.
• The Disappearing Alphabet (children’s fiction), illustrated by David Diaz, Harcourt (San Diego), 1998.
• Opposites, More Opposites, and a Few Differences (contains Opposites and More Opposites), edited by Diane D’Andrade, Harcourt, 2000.
• The Pig in the Spigot (children’s fiction), illustrated by J. Otto Seibold, Harcourt (San Diego), 2000.

 

Also recorded Richard Wilbur Reading His Own Poems, for Caedmon, and additional readings for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature, Library of Congress. Translator of The Funeral of Bobo, by Joseph Brodsky, for Ardis. Work represented in anthologies. Contributor of critical reviews to periodicals. General editor, “Laurel Poets” series, for Dell; former member of poetry board, Wesleyan University Press.