A Reader's Guide to the Poetry of Richard WilburA comprehensive critical guide to the poetry of Richard Wilbur, United States poet laureate. This survey is unified by its focus on two central concerns of Wilbur's poetry, namely the synthesis of matter and spirit and the reconciliation of regional and cosmopolitan viewpoints. |
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... becomes emblematic . Deaf to our questions like Keats's urn , it teases us out of thought . Deaf , and yet not dumb . The cicada becomes an oracular voice , the center of a quest for meaning . At the very moment that the insect's ...
... becomes emblematic . Deaf to our questions like Keats's urn , it teases us out of thought . Deaf , and yet not dumb . The cicada becomes an oracular voice , the center of a quest for meaning . At the very moment that the insect's ...
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... becomes down and solid becomes nonsolid . " 38 The poem is in fact an indictment of Clevelandism , of self - indulgent wit . This becomes apparent the moment we turn to the eponymous poem of the collection . In " The Beautiful Changes ...
... becomes down and solid becomes nonsolid . " 38 The poem is in fact an indictment of Clevelandism , of self - indulgent wit . This becomes apparent the moment we turn to the eponymous poem of the collection . In " The Beautiful Changes ...
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... becomes evident from the moment he dismisses the faulty ancient notion of eyes as lights ( lumina can mean both ) only to supplant it with a much less tenable notion . Having set up this mo- mentum of mischief , Wilbur continues to pile ...
... becomes evident from the moment he dismisses the faulty ancient notion of eyes as lights ( lumina can mean both ) only to supplant it with a much less tenable notion . Having set up this mo- mentum of mischief , Wilbur continues to pile ...
Contents
Introduction I | 1 |
Ceremony and Other Poems 1950 | 62 |
Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems 1961 | 92 |
Copyright | |
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