# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-wilbur
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:52:45.783Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-wilbur"
name: "Richard Wilbur"
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description: "Richard Purdy Wilbur was an American poet and literary translator, and one of the foremost poets of the World War II generation. Wilbur's work, often employing rhyme, and composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentlemanly elegance. He was acclaimed in his youth as the heir to Robert Frost, translated the verse dramas of Moliere, Corneille, and Racine into rhymed English, collaborated with Leonard Bernstein as the lyricist for the opera Candide, and in his old age acted, particularly through his role in the annual West Chester University Poetry Conference, as a mentor to the younger poets of the New Formalist movement. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987 and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, in 1957 and 1989."
tagline: "American poet (1921-2017)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1921-03-01"
deathDate: "2017-10-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump