Marked by the characteristic virtuosity of one of this country's most distinguished poets and collected in a single volume for the first time, these translations include selections from Beowulf and The Middle English Bestiary, as well as poems by Baudelaire, Char, Akhmatova, Yevtushenko, Brodksy and Bandeira. A Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Richard Wilbur's many awards include the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.