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With a distinguished career spanning more than sixty years, Richard
Wilbur stands as one of America's preeminent men of letters.
Collected Poems 1943-2004 is the comprehensive collection of
Wilbur's astonishing, timeless work. It will serve as the most
referenced trove of this beloved poet's best verses for many years
to come.
In Trackless Woods
In trackless woods, it puzzled me to find
Four great rock maples seemingly aligned,
As if they had been set out in a row
Before some house a century ago,
To edge the property and lend some shade.
I looked to see if ancient wheels had made
Old ruts to which the trees ran parallel,
But there were none, so far as I could tell-
There'd been no roadway. Nor could I find the square
Depression of a cellar anywhere,
And so I tramped on further, to survey
Amazing patterns in a hornbeam spray
Or spirals in a pine cone, under trees
Not subject to our stiff geometries.
The renowned French playwright Moliere's most masterful and most
frequently performed play, skillfully translated into English by
the Pulitzer Prize-winning translator Richard Wilbur. The rich
bourgeois Orgon has become a bigot and prude. The title character,
a wily opportunist and swindler, affects sancity and gains complete
ascendancy over Ogron, who not only attemps to turn over his
fortune but offers his daughter in marriage to his "spiritual"
guide. Translated and with an Introduction by Richard Wilbur.
With a distinguished career spanning more than sixty years, Richard
Wilbur stands as one of America's preeminent men of letters.
Collected Poems 1943-2004 is the comprehensive collection of
Wilbur's astonishing, timeless work. It will serve as the most
referenced trove of this beloved poet's best verses for many years
to come.
In Trackless Woods
In trackless woods, it puzzled me to find
Four great rock maples seemingly aligned,
As if they had been set out in a row
Before some house a century ago,
To edge the property and lend some shade.
I looked to see if ancient wheels had made
Old ruts to which the trees ran parallel,
But there were none, so far as I could tell-
There'd been no roadway. Nor could I find the square
Depression of a cellar anywhere,
And so I tramped on further, to survey
Amazing patterns in a hornbeam spray
Or spirals in a pine cone, under trees
Not subject to our stiff geometries.
In this classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John
Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English
verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty
self-descriptive example. In new essays for this revised edition,
J. D. McClatchy and Richard Wilbur each offer a personal take on
why Rhymes's Reason has played an integral role in the education of
young poets and student scholars. "[Hollander] put everything he
knew about the structures of poetry-those fabled magic tricks-into
a sort of guidebook for those starting out on the trail up Mount
Parnassus. . . . There are astonishments on every page."-from the
Foreword by J. D. McClatchy "This book's wit and inventive spirit,
its self-describing embodiments of form, now offer the beginning
poet a happy chance to discover the technician in himself."-from
the Afterword by Richard Wilbur "How lucky the young poet who
discovers this wisest and most lighthearted of manuals."-James
Merrill "What the E. B. White-William Strunk The Elements of Style
is to the writing of prose, Rhyme's Reason could very easily become
to the writing of verse. . . . Marvelously comprehensive,
clarifying and useful, [and] a delight to read."-John Reardon, Los
Angeles Times Review of Books "A virtuoso performance and a
mandatory text for poetry readers and practitioners alike."-ALA
Booklist
Additional Contributors Are John Latouche And Dorothy Parker.
Additional Contributors Are John Latouche And Dorothy Parker.
This volume represents virtually all of Wilbur's published poetry
to date, including his six earlier collections, twenty-seven new
poems, and a cantata. Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize and the Los
Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry.
Richard Wilbur's translations of the great French dramas have
been a boon to acting troupes, students of French literature and
history, and theater lovers. He continues this wonderful work with
two plays from Pierre Corneille: Le Cid is Corneille's most famous
play, a tragedy set in Seville that illuminates the dangers of
being bound by honor and the limits of romantic love; The Liar is a
farce, set in France and dealing with love, misperceptions, and
downright falsifications, which ends, of course, happily ever
after.
These two plays, together in one volume, work in perfect tandem to
showcase the breadth of Corneille's abilities. Taking us back to
the time he portrays as well as the time of his greatest success as
a playwright, they remind us of that the delights to be found on
the French stage are truly ageless.
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The Theatre of Illusion (Paperback)
Pierre Corneille; Translated by Richard Wilbur; Introduction by Richard Wilbur
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Pierre Corneille, in his original dedication for The Theatre of
Illusion, described the play as a "strange monster." He first
called these five acts a comedy; later, a "caprice" and an
"extravagant trifle." Written in 1635 and staged in 1636, the play
vanished from the stage for the next three hundred years--to be
revived in 1937 by Louis Jouvet and the Comedie Francaise. Since
then it has been widely considered, in Virginia Scott's words,
"Corneille's baroque masterpiece."
Today this brilliant piece of wit and drama is available in a
new translation from one of America's finest poets and translators
of French, Richard Wilbur. Widely praised for his translations of
plays by Moliere and Racine, Wilbur now turns his poetic grace to
this work, which remains as much a celebration of the comedy of
humanity and the magic of life as it was when Corneille wrote
it.
Don Juan, the "Seducer of Seville," originated as a hero-villain of
Spanish folk legend, is a famous lover and scoundrel who has made
more than a thousand sexual conquests. One of Moliere's best-known
plays, Don Juan was written while Tartuffe was still banned on the
stages of Paris, and shared much with the outlawed play. Modern
directors transform Don Juan in every new era, as each director
finds something new to highlight in this timeless classic. Richard
Wilbur's flawless translation will be the standard for generations
to come, as have his translations of Moliere's other plays. Witty,
urbane, and poetic in its prose, Don Juan is, most importantly, as
funny now as it was for audiences when it was first
presented.
Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
For many years some of the finest craftsmen throughout North
America laboured in factories large and small to produce carriages
and sleighs. This book celebrates their skills and artistry.
This full-colour book presents the full range of vehicles they
produced: carts, carriages, sleighs, buggies and slovens -- from
the very grand opera bus to the functional ox wagon. The text looks
at design developments, the variety of usage and technological
details.
This book draws on one of the finest collections of horse-drawn
vehicles in North America, at New Brunswick's Kings Landing
Settlement near Fredericton, with photographs were taken on site
with animators in period costume and horses harnessed. It shows how
the carriage-making industry in New Brunswick developed over time,
relative to the development of roads.
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