![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes he’ll even add rhyme to non-rhyming forms: several of his poems are rhyming haikus, with lines like, “This, if Japanese / Would represent grey boulders / Walloped by rough seas.” Though Wilbur has written other types of poems, he’s always been best known as a rhymer actor-director Brian Bedford, who helped select his Misanthrope for Stratford, told Maclean’s that Wilbur’s rhymes, “which are absolutely relentless, give a kind of ebullience to the language.” While Wilbur says he doesn’t let form dictate content-“I don’t, for example, say I’d like to write a sonnet and fish around for a subject”-he usually chooses a classic rhyming pattern. I’m delighted”), one of his most famous achievements: the original French version is written in rhyming couplets, and instead of converting it to prose or blank verse, Wilbur took on the task of rhyming from beginning to end. Wilbur has been publishing poems since he was eight years old, and most of it preserves what he calls “the incidental pleasure in any repetition of sounds.” Starting July 31, the Stratford Festival will present his translation of Molière’s The Misanthrope (“I didn’t know they were going to do that,” Wilbur told Maclean’s. poet laureate who turned 90 this year, is a master of rhyme-something few modern poets aspire to be. ![]()
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