Richard 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, ...
The death, on Saturday, of the poet Richard Wilbur may make one—a Francophile “one,” anyway—reflect on the supreme qualities of his English translations of Molière. Over the years, Wilbur translated ...