6/26/2023 0 Comments Moliere richard wilbur"Wilbur," the critic John Simon once wrote, "makes Molière into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one." Now, for the first time, all ten of Wilbur's unsurpassed translations of Molière's plays are brought together in two-volume Library of America edition, fulfilling the poet's vision for the translations. His verse translations of Molière's plays are especially admired by readers and are still performed today in theaters around the world. One of the most accomplished American poets of his generation, Richard Wilbur (1921-2017) was also a prolific translator of French and Russian literature. For the 400th anniversary of Moliere's birth, Richard Wilbur's unsurpassed translations of Molière's plays-themselves towering achievements in English verse-are brought together by Library of America in a two-volume edition
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