Richard Wilbur, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, dies at 96Richard Wilbur, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and translator who intrigued and delighted generations of readers and theatergoers through his rhyming editions of Moliere and his own verse on memory, writing and nature, died. "Moliere has had no better American friend than the poet Richard Wilbur," The New York Times' Frank Rich wrote in 1982. "Lillian had heard about my translation of Moliere's 'The Misanthrope' and wanted to have a look at it," Wilbur told The Associated Press in 2006. "I think many people associate happiness with shallowness," Wilbur told the AP. For much of his adult life, Wilbur wrote every day, in longhand, then transcribed his work on a manual typewriter.

Source: Daily Sun October 15, 2017 22:41 UTC