James Merrill

James Merrill

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3 March 1926, New York City, New York, USA
Merrill won every major literary award, including the Pulitzer ("Divine Comedies, 1976) and two National Book Awards ("Nights and Days, " 1967 and "Mirabell: Books of Number, " 1978). In addition to poetry he wrote novels, plays and essays. A memoir titled "A Different Person" came out in 1993, and his 15th volume... Show more »
Merrill won every major literary award, including the Pulitzer ("Divine Comedies, 1976) and two National Book Awards ("Nights and Days, " 1967 and "Mirabell: Books of Number, " 1978). In addition to poetry he wrote novels, plays and essays. A memoir titled "A Different Person" came out in 1993, and his 15th volume of poetry, "A Scattering of Salts, " is scheduled to be published in March by Alfred A. Knopf. Merrill was born in New York City in 1926. His father, Charles Merrill, was a founder of the stock brokerage firm Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and published in March by Alfred A. Knopf. Pierce, Fenner and Smith. His parents' divorce in 1939 provided him with a dominant theme throughout his career. Merrill's first book, "First Poems" (1951), received mixed reviews, and he turned to fiction and playwriting. His first play, "The Immortal Husband, " was produced off Broadway in 1955, and his first novel, "The Seraglio, " was published in 1957. He returned to verse with "The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace" (1959) and "Water Street" (1963). In a review in The New Republic, Charles Molesworth compared Merrill's "Scripts for the Pageant" (1980) to "Yeats and Blake, if not Milton and Donne." Over the years Merrill's work became increasingly personal in subject matter, intimate in voice and colloquial in manner, while remaining highly formal. "His common style is a net of loose talk tightening to verse, " wrote the critic Denis Donoghue, "a mode in which anything can be said with grace." Show less «

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