Richard Wilbur

Furtherreading

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BOOKS

• Bixler, Francis, Richard Wilbur: A Reference Guide, Macmillan, 1991.
• Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, Supplement: Modern Writers, 1900-1998, Gale (Detroit), 1998.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale, Volume 3, 1975, Volume 6, 1976, Volume 9, 1978, Volume 14, 1980, Volume 53, 1989.
• Cummins, Paul F., Richard Wilbur: A Critical Essay, Eerdmans, 1971.
• Dickey, James, Babel to Byzantium, Farrar, Straus, 1968.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, Gale, 1980.
• Edgecombe, Rodney Stenning, A Reader's Guide to the Poetry of Richard Wilbur, University of Alabama Press, 1995.
• Hill, Donald L., Richard Wilbur, Twayne, 1967.
• Hougen, John B., Ecstasy within Discipline: The Poetry of Richard Wilbur, Scholars Press, 1994.
• Hungerford, Edward, editor, Poets in Progress, Northwestern University Press, 1962, new edition, 1967.
• Jarrell, Randall, Poetry and the Age, Knopf, 1953.
• Jarrell, Randall, The Third Book of Criticism, Farrar, Straus, 1969.
• Kunitz, Stanley, and Vineta Colby, Twentieth-Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature, H. W. Wilson, 1955.
• Michelson, Bruce, Wilbur's Poetry: Music in a Scattering Time, University of Massachusetts Press, 1991.
• Nemerov, Howard, editor, Poets on Poetry, Basic Books, 1966.
• Salinger, Wendy, editor, Richard Wilbur's Creation, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor), 1983.
• Rosenthal, M. L., The Modern Poets, Oxford University Press, 1965.

PERIODICALS

• America, October 15, 1994, p. 18.
• Booklist, November 15, 1998, Michael Cart, review of The Disappearing Alphabet, p. 585; March 1, 2000, Ray Olson, review of Mayflies, p. 1190.
• Boston Review, summer, 1998, review of The Catbird's Song.
• Christian Century, May 24, 2000, Pelaez Jill Baumgaertner, review of Mayflies, p. 607.
• Hollins Critic, April, 1977.
• Horn Book, September-October, 1998, Jennifer M. Brabander, review of The Disappearing Alphabet, p. 618.
• Hudson Review, summer, 1969; summer, 1987.
• Kirkus Reviews, September 15, 1998, review of The Disappearing Alphabet.
• Library Journal, April 15, 1997, Barbara O'Hara, review of The Catbird's Song, p. 83.
• London Magazine, July, 1957.
• Los Angeles Times, March 17, 1983; April 18, 1987; October 13, 1987.
• Los Angeles Times Book Review, July 31, 1988; October 9, 1988.
• Modern Poetry Studies, Volume 2, numbers 1 and 2, 1982.
• Nation, November 3, 1956.
• National Review, September 2, 1988.
• New Republic, June 5, 1976; March 24, 1982, Brad Leithauser, "Reconsideration: Richard Wilbur—America's Master of Formal Verse," pp. 28-31.
• New York, February 13, 1995, p. 102.
• New Yorker, December 12, 1994, p. 122.
• New York Times, January 28, 1983; April 18, 1987, Irvin Molotsky, "Richard Wilbur Is Named Nation's Poet Laureate," p. 26; March 14, 1999, David Sacks, review of The Disappearing Alphabet, p. 30; April 16, 2000, David Kirby, review of Mayflies.
• New York Times Book Review, December 14, 1969; December 26, 1982; April 18, 1987; May 29, 1988; August 27, 1995, p. 27.
• Paris Review, winter, 1977.
• Parnassus: Poetry in Review, spring/summer, 1977.
• People Weekly, October 5, 1987.
• Publishers Weekly, August 2, 1991, p. 60; March 13, 1995, p. 68; February 10, 1997, review of The Catbird's Song, p. 72; August 17, 1998, review of The Disappearing Alphabet, p. 70; February 7, 2000, review of Mayflies, p. 69.
• Saturday Review, August 18, 1956.
• School Library Journal, September, 1992, p. 272; April, 1994, p. 132; May, 1995, p. 117.
• Sewanee Review, spring, 1978.
• Shenandoah, fall, 1965.
• Southern Review, summer, 1973; April, 1975, Raymond Oliver, "Verse Translation and Richard Wilbur," pp. 318-330; July, 1979.
• Southwest Review, summer, 1973.
• Time, November 19, 1984.
• Times (London), July 15, 1989.
• Times Literary Supplement, May 20, 1977; September 15-21, 1989, p. 999.
• Tribune Books (Chicago), July 24, 1988.
• Twentieth Century Literature, winter, 1995, Philip White, "'Walking to Sleep' and Richard Wilbur's Quest for a Rational Imagination," pp. 249-265.
• Variety, January 3, 1994, p. 58; May 30, 1994, p. 58; February 16, 1995, p. 82.
• Virginia Quarterly Review, summer, 1990, Peter Harris, "Forty Years of Richard Wilbur: The Loving Work of an Equilibrist," pp. 412-425.
• Wall Street Journal, April, 2000, p. W10.
• Washington Post, July 25, 1976; October 6, 1987.