Richard Wilbur (1921- ) was born in New York City and spent his childhood in North Caldwell, New Jersey, in a rural setting conducive to his love of nature. He graduated from Amherst College (1942), married Mary Charlotte Hayes Ward of Boston (an alumna of Smith College; the couple has four children), and served in World War II with the 36th 'Texas' Division in Europe. He began writing poems during the chaos of war as a (to quote Robert Frost) "'momentary stay against confusion.'" Returning home, Wilbur did graduate work in English at Harvard, and upon the completion of his degree (A.M. 1947) became a junior fellow on the Harvard faculty. In the same year he brought out his first volume of poems, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems. Continuing at Harvard until 1954, he went on to teach at Wellesley College and Wesleyan University, and from 1977 until his retirement in 1986 served as writer-in-residence at Smith College.
Over his long and prolific career as a teacher, poet, tr...
Journal
The Looking Glass : New Perspectives on Children's LiteratureISSN
1551-5680Volume
6Issue
1Publisher
La Trobe UniversitySection Title
Alice's AcademyAuthor Biography
Millicent Lenz teaches literature for children, literature for young adults, and (periodically) history of children's literature at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her research interests and publications center on fantasy (including speculative fiction), poetry, and historical fiction. With Peter Hunt of Cardiff University in Wales, she recently authored Alternative Worlds in Fantasy Fiction [Continuum, 2001: 0-8264-4936-0 (hardback); 0-8264-4937-9 (paperback)].Date Created
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