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I 32165Z78 1991eb 811/ .52  \nWilbur, Richard,--1921- --Criticism and interpretation.  \nPage iii  \nWilbur's Poetry Music in a Scattering Time  \nBruce Michelson  \nPage iv  \nCopyright © 1991  \nby The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved  \nPrinted in the United States of America LC 9020353  \nISBN 0-87023-741-1  \nDesigned by Susan Bishop  \nSet in Linotron Bembo by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.  \nPrinted and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.  \nLibrary ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Michelson, Bruce, 1948 .  \nWilbur's poetry : music in a scattering time / Bruce Michelson.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 0-87023-741-1 (alk. paper)  \n1. Wilbur, Richard, 1921 Criticism and interpretation. I. Title.  \nPS3545. 132165Z78 1991 811'. 52dc20 9020353  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.  \nChapter 2, \"Words,\" is a revised and expanded version of \"Wilbur's Words,\" originally published in The Massachusetts Review 23, no. 1 (1982), © 1982 by The Massachusetts Review, Inc.  \nAcknowledgment is made to publishers, journals, and individuals for permission toreprint selections from material by Richard Wilbur under copyright.  \nHarcourt Brace Jovanovich. From The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems, © 1947 and renewed 1975 by Richard Wilbur: \"Attention Makes Infinity\" and \"The Regatta\" ; excerpts from ''Water Walker,\" \"Superiorities,\" \"A Simplification,\" \"Caserta Garden,\"and \"The Beautiful Changes. \" From Ceremony and Other Poems: excerpts from\"Year's End,\" © 1949 and renewed 1977, and \"Beowulf,\" © 1950 and renewed 1978 by Richard Wilbur. From Things ofThis World: \"The Mill\" ; excerpts from \"Love Calls Us to the Things of This World,\" \"John Chrysostom,\" \"Marginalia,\" \"The Beacon,\" \"For the New Railway Station in Rome,\" \"Charles Baudelaire: L'Invitation au Voyage,\" and\"Beasts,\" © 1956 and renewed 1984, and from \"Merlin Enthralled,\" © 1981 by Richard Wilbur. Excerpts from the following translations: The School for Wives, © 1971 by  \nRichard Wilbur; Jean Racine: Andromache, © 1982 by Richard Wilbur; Jean Racine: Phaedra, © 1986 by Richard P. Wilbur; Molière 's Tartufe, © 1961 and renewed 1989 by Richard Wilbur; \"Introduction\" to The Misanthrope, © 1955 and renewed 1983 by Richard Wilbur.  \nHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., and Faber and Faber. From Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems, © 1961 and renewed 1989 by Richard Wilbur: \"Ballade for the Duke of Orleans\" and \"Stop\" ; excerpts from \"The Undead,\" \"Eight Riddles from Symphosius,\"\"A Christmas Hymn,\" and \"Junk. \" From The Mind-Reader: New Poems: \"In Limbo,\"© 1975; excerpts from \"The Fourth of July,\" © 1974, \"Rillons, Rillettes,\" © 1966, and from \"Cottage Street, 1953,\" \"Teresa,\" \"Children of Darkness,\" \"Flippancies,\" and  \n\"The Prisoner of Zenda,\" © 1976 by Richard Wilbur. From New (Permissions to reprint copyrighted material continue on page 258)  \nPage v  \nFor Theresa, Hope, and Sarah  \nPage vii  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments ix  \n1. Homelessly at Home 3  \n2. Words 36  \n3. Quarreling with Poe 61  \n4. Longer Poems 82  \n5. Chances 121  \n6. Wilbur as Translator 162  \n7. The Figure a Poet Makes 197  \nNotes 225  \nBibliography 243  \nIndex 253  \nPage ix  \nAcknowledgments  \nPortions ofthis book were completed with support from the University of Illinois Research Board and the Illinois Department of English. Here in Urbana, Robert Dale Parker, James Hurt, Zohreh T. Sullivan, and Joel Super have read all or part of the manuscript and have offered generous and wise suggestions, as has Robert B. Shaw of Mount Holyoke College. I have had important help as well from Melanie Wisne","cbCaihDTTeUg318u","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihDTTeUg318u","pdf",1257831,484,"English","# Acknowledgments\n# 1. Homelessly at Home\n# 2. Words\n# 3. Quarreling with Poe\n# 4. Longer Poems\n# 5. Chances\n# 6. Wilbur as Translator\n# 7. 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