[Poetry reading at the University at Buffalo, November 15, 1979] / Richard Wilbur.

Recorded at the Katherine Cornell Theatre, University at Buffalo on November 15, 1979 at 8 p.m. on a 7 inch Scotch reel-to-reel tape.

Poet Richard Wilbur is the featured reader for the Third Annual Oscar Silverman Memorial Poetry Reading. He is introduced by Mac Hammond. Wilbur reads old and new poetry and provides explanatory anecdotes on the majority of the poems he reads. His poetry touches on W.H. Auden, Sylvia Plath, mushrooms, winter, Italy, the editing practices of the New Yorker magazine and publishing poetry for children.

Richard Wilbur.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries. Digital conversion was made possible through a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities grant.

1979

Sound recording

PCR347

Transit --Icarium Mare --Six years later (translation of Joseph Brodsky) --For W.H. Auden --On having misidentified a wild flower --Tywater --An event --A baroque wall fountain in the Villa Sciarra --Love calls us to the things of this world --Sonnet --Pangloss' song: a comic opera lyric --The writer --Piccola commedia --March --Cottage Street 1953 --Children of darkness --The mind-reader --A late aubade --Wilbur reads a selection of children's poetry.

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