Richard Wilbur
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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 traditi
Wilbur in 1964
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond. She also wrote pros
Richard Wilbur
…Translation Prize for his translation of The Misanthrope, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Award for Things of This World (1956), the Edna St Vincent Millay award, the Bollingen Prize, and the Chevalier, Ordre des Palmes Académiques. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in…
Millay, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933
Millay photographed by Arnold Genthe in 1914 in Mamaroneck, New York
Millay's 1923–24 home: 75+1⁄2 Bedford Street, Greenwich Village (2013 photo)
Millay, c. 1920