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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
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