Whether or not it's his cup of tea, I don't really think that Richard Wilbur needs to be treated like a child and protected from reading this or any other sonnet. Perhaps someone ought to hurry over to his house and set the parental controls on his cable box?
Wilbur writes in an essay that the burden of writing a sonnet these days is that sonnets have such a long history that an educated reader cannot help but judge it against what has come before, and it becomes extra difficult to use the form in a way that is fresh or original. It could be that he would approve of the ingenious solution to the "been there done that" sonnet phenomenon employed by "Finale."
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