Volume 47, Number 11 · June 29, 2000
Gaiety Redeemed
By Brad Leithauser
Mayflies: New Poems and Translations
by Richard Wilbur
Harcourt, 80 pp., $22.00
Sometime in the early Fifties, Richard Wilbur apparently cut an advanta-geous deal with whatever committee of muses or daemons or egos and ids lies in charge of his poetic inspiration. Freshly thirty at the start of the decade—he was born in 1921—he already had two books behind him, which had drawn the sort of acclaim, including a warm nod from T.S. Eliot, that most young poets only dream of.
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