Reading: Richard Wilbur

In this audiovisual recording from Thursday, March 19, 1981, as part of the 12th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Voices,” Richard Wilbur reads a selection of his translations and poetry. Wilbur reads his translation of “On the Subject of Spring,” by Charles D'Orléans and “Ballade of the Ladies of Time Past” by Francois Villon, a section of Beowulf, “Song” by Vinícius De Moraes, and a scene from Moliere's The Learned Ladies. He also reads “Seed Leaves: Homage to R.F.,” “On Having Misidentified a Wildflower,” “Transit,” “For W.H. Auden,” “Gnomons,” “The Writer,” “The Eye,” “Piccola Commedia,” “Cottage Street, 1953,” “Love Calls Us to the Things of this World,” “A Grasshopper,” “Junk,” “Two Voices in a Meadow,” “Flippancies,” “The Prisoner of Zenda,” “Opposites,” and part of a lyrical adaptation of Voltaire's Candide into a musical.Introduced by Dr. Bernard O'Kelly, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences.