Here is the notice in
The Washington Post:
“Throughout his career Wilbur has shown, within the compass of his classicism, enviable variety,” The Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda wrote in
2004, reviewing a new collection of Mr. Wilbur’s poetry.
“His poems describe fountains and firetrucks, grasshoppers and toads, European cities and country pleasures. All of them are easy to read, while being suffused with an astonishing verbal music and a compacted thoughtfulness that invite sustained reflection. Besides, they are so beautiful one simply wants to go back to them again and again.”