Richard Wilbur
One of the twentieth century's most acclaimed American poets, Richard Wilbur has received the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award and two Pulitzer Prizes. He also served as Poet Laureate and has translated many plays and poems from the French. He first delivered "Poetry and Happiness" as a lecture at Washington and Lee University, and it was subsequently published in Shenandoah.
Reading List
Poetry and Happiness
I am not perfectly certain what our forefathers understood by “the pursuit of happiness.” Of the friends whom I’ve asked for an opinion, the majority have taken that phrase to mean the pursuit of self-realization, or of a full humane …