WILBUR, Richard.
Things of This World.
"What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely your": First Edition of Things of This World; Lengthily Inscribed by Richard Wilbur
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1956.
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First edition of the poet’s Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award-winning collection. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author, "For _____ _______, Richard Wilbur What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you." Fine in near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear.
Richard Wilbur “is a poet for all of us, whose elegant words brim with wit and paradox,” announced Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin when the poet succeeded Robert Penn Warren to become the second poet laureate of the United States. Wilbur won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for his collection Things of This World: Poems in 1957 and a second Pulitzer for New and Collected Poems. He has won the Wallace Stevens Award, the Frost Medal, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, two Bollingen Prizes, the T.S. Eliot Award, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Award, the Prix de Rome Fellowship and many more honors, fellowships and awards for his poetry. His translations of French verse, especially Voltaire’s Candide and the plays of Moliere and Jean Racine, are also highly regarded by critics; his translation of Moliere’s Tartuffe won the 1971 Bollingen Prize.
Things of This World.
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