Photo: Pekka Tarkka (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons

If you like Richard Wilbur, read these authors

American poet (1921-2017)

Also known as: Richard Purdy Wilbur, Ричард Уилбер, ريتشارد ويلبر, 리처드 윌버, リチャード・ウィルバー, 理查德·威爾伯

Similar authors

This list comes from an AI, not yet from reader data. Once enough readers like Richard Wilbur, their data replaces the AI suggestions.

Anthony Hecht1923–2004
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
formal, elegant metrical verse with mid-century American craftsmanship and moral depth (AI reason)
Report
Howard Nemerov1920–1991
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
witty, formally accomplished meditative poems on perception and ordinary things (AI reason)
Report
Elizabeth Bishop1911–1979
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
precise, observant descriptive poetry with restrained formal grace (AI reason)
Report
Robert Frost1874–1963
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
traditional meter and rhyme applied to nature and philosophical reflection (AI reason)
Report
W. H. Auden1907–1973
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
technically masterful, intellectually playful formal poetry (AI reason)
Report

Show all 10

Donald Justice1925–2004
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
quiet, formally exact lyrics with elegiac restraint (AI reason)
Report
X. J. Kennedy1929–2026
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
light verse and formal poems combining rhyme, wit and craft (AI reason)
Report
Marianne Moore1887–1972
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
exact, idiosyncratic attention to animals and objects in crafted verse (AI reason)
Report
Dana Gioia1950–
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
New Formalist lyrics continuing the tradition of rhyme and meter (AI reason)
Report
James Merrill1926–1995
AI suggestion, no reader data yet
virtuosic formal verse marked by wit, wordplay and urbane tone (AI reason)
Report

Pick Richard Wilbur and a few more favorite authors to get suggestions that fit you.