The Life and Work of Richard Wilbur: a Great American Poet

This Thesis report covers Richards life, literary period and an interpretation of his works. Richard Wilbur: A Great American Poet Richard Wilbur used rhyme, rhythm, and vivid description to implant a colorful, clear, and almost interactive images. He is a post-modern writer who had a direct, formal and yet light-hearted and playful writing style. Richard Wilbur was born in New York, New York on March 1, 1921. As he grew he attended many colleges and universities the …

…the top with sweat," you can picture yourself bending over on a hot day to take a sip of water from a crystal clear brook. "To where, in a flicked slew, of sparks and glittering slit, he weaves, Through stream-bed rocks, disturbing foundered leaves, and butts then out of view." In this passage there is something moving under the water that is shiny, it moves between some bed rocks and then ducks out of view.