As a former academic librarian, I urge you to at least browse some of the biographical resources in the following guide:
http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/hum/poetryreviews.html
At the bare minimum, I'd recommend checking the following two resources, even if it's only so that you can say that you have!
1. Surely there's a
Contemporary Poets essay for Wilbur. Since
CP is a chronological resource, the texts of the original article and subsequent updates will be sprinkled through several different volumes. To locate all the updates, be SURE to check the appropriate index volumes. (There are separate index volumes for each chunk of years, so check the start and end dates of each index volume, and ASSUME that at least one of the volumes you need has been misshelved!)
2. It might also be interesting to see what the
New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has to say about him. This resource doesn't usually discuss individual poets except with regard to their contribution to movements, but surely Wilbur qualifies in that regard.
Happy hunting!
Julie Stoner
[This message has been edited by Julie Stoner (edited February 23, 2005).]