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Marked by the characteristic virtuosity of one of this country's most distinguished poets and collected in a single volume for the first time, these translations include selections from Beowulf and The Middle English Bestiary, as well as poems by Baudelaire, Char, Akhmatova, Yevtushenko, Brodksy and Bandeira. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Richard Wilbur's many awards include the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.
Richard Wilbur
RICHARD WILBUR, one of America’s most beloved poets, has served as poet laureate of the United States. He has received the National Book Award, two Pulitzer Prizes, the National Arts Club medal of honor for literature, and a number of translation prizes, including two Bollingen Prizes and two awards from PEN.
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