DER US-AMERIKANISCHE POET, SCHRIFTSTELLER UND ÜBERSETZER RICHARD WILBUR IST GESTORBEN

Der am 1. März 1921 in New York City geborene US-amerikanische Dichter, Schriftsteller, Übersetzer und zweifache Pulitzer-Preisträger Richard Wilbur ist am 14. Oktober 2017 in Belmont (Massachusetts) gestorben.

Richard Wilbur, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Winner, Dies at 96

Across more than 60 years as an acclaimed American poet, Mr. Wilbur followed a muse who prized traditional virtuosity over self-dramatization; as a consequence he often found himself out of favor with the literary authorities who preferred the heat of artists like Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg.

Daniel Lewis

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/15/obituaries/richard-wilbur-poet-laureate-and-pulitzer-winner-dies-at-96.html

Mr. Wilbur, a former Army infantryman who devoted himself to poetry after returning from World War II, was among the most prolific poets of his generation. A devotee of classical rhyme and meter, his work retained a sense of orderly elegance through the rise of confessional poets such as Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, and in contrast to the often esoteric work of avant-garde writers like John Ashbery, who died last month at age 90.

Harrison Smith

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/richard-wilbur-american-poet-who-twice-won-the-pulitzer-prize-dies-at-96/2017/10/15/cdb00a9c-b1db-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html?utm_term=.839ef92bde10

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