Rick, I'll make no great claims for the interview with Richard Wilbur; it's not the best one he's done (there's a whole book of them, and they're well worth reading), and there are many little things he's said elsewhere, but I guess at 88 that's forgivable. However, if you're interested in his poetry it does throw some interesting little sidelights on it - particularly the influence of Frost and Bishop. It is undeniably a low-pressure interview and it's not going to mean much to anyone who's never read Wilbur and who has no wish to do so.
Maybe that's also true of Goldsmith's interview - but then he says himself that he's unreadable, and so...
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