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Richard Wilbur's "A Dubious Night"

Richard Wilbur's "A Dubious Night"

The Daily Poem · Sean Johnson

March 7, 202510m 27s

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Show Notes

Great poets write as much by ear as by sight, and often turn to sonic phenomena for inspiration. The ringing of bells is one of the most time-honored of those sounds, and in today’s poem Wilbur deepens the sound-image through the added dimension of distance. Happy reading.



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