[contextly_auto_sidebar] JUST a quick post to note the death of the great poet and translator Richard Wilbur. Until two days ago, when he passed away at 96, I would have called him America's finest living poet. Like most kids, I studied some poetry in high school and college -- Eliot, Auden, Yeats, Langston Hughes, Bishop, etc. I even, in my very early 20s, fell hard for a few poets in … [Read more...]