Richard Wilbur In Conversation with Peter Dale

A 96 page volume, containing a lengthy interview, with a career sketch, a comprehensive bibliography, and a representative selection of quotations from Wilbur's critics and reviewers. Also included is the title poem of Wilbur's most recent collection, Mayflies.

Richard Wilbur was born in New York City in 1921, and educated at Amherst College and Harvard. He served in the US army from 1943 until 1945.

Wilbur's first book, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems was published in 1947. Since then he has published several volumes of poetry, of which the most recent was New and Collected Poems (Faber, 1989).

His many honours include the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Edna St Vincent Millay award, the Bollingen Prize, and the Chevalier, Ordre National des Palmes Academiques. He was the US poet laureate, 1987-88.