Posts Tagged ‘Paul Mariana’
Remembering Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), Part 2
November 1, 2017
Richard Wilbur was always a formalist at heart, but one attuned to the rhythms of a living language. Like Frost and Stevens, he insisted on an underlying meter in his verse—most often a loose iambic pentameter line. In Williams’s free verse he often heard an underlying metrical beat which undergirded his poems. He grew up…
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