Asked what living poets he admires, Yezzi mentioned Geoffrey Hill, Richard Wilbur, A. E. Stallings, David Barber, and Adam Kirsch.
Wilbur is also a translator, specializing in the 17th century French comedies of Molière and the dramas of Jean Racine.
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In 2012, Yale conferred an honorary degree, Doctor of Letters, on Wilbur.
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Over 100 poets, editors, scholars, and students from Russia and the United States participated in this first-ever exchange, including poets Richard Wilbur, John Ashbery, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Andrei Voznesensky.
She has received numerous endorsements for her work, including praise from Richard Wilbur, Rhina Espaillat, Eric Ormsby, and X. J. Kennedy.
The Distinguished Guest forum has hosted and continues to host presentations, and discussions with renowned writers and poets such as Richard Wilbur -- a former US Poet Laureate and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the late Anthony Hecht, Timothy Steele, Charles Martin, X. J. Kennedy and others, and these discussions are permanently archived and accessible online.
However, he says that Charles Johnston's translation of Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, Richard Wilbur's translation of Molière's Tartuffe and Robert Fitzgerald's translation of the Iliad have helped him enter worlds without which would have been out of his reach.