William Stanley Merwin

Background

Merwin, William Stanley was born on September 30, 1927 in New York City.

Education

AB, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1948.

Career

Translator, London, 1951-1954. Playwright-in-residence Poet's Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1956—1957. Poetry editor The Nation, 1962.

Achievements

• William Stanley Merwin has been listed as a noteworthy poet by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • REGIONS OF MEMORY

    (The editors have compiled for the first time Merwin's mos...)

  • The Lost Upland

    (A collection of stories pay tribute to the ancient land o...)

  • The Lost Upland/Stories of Southwest France

    (A brilliantly evocative and loving account of a vanishing...)

  • The Rain in the Trees

    (A literary event—a new volume of poems by one of the mast...)

  • The Lice

    ( This Fiftieth Anniversary edition celebrates one of the...)

  • Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology

    ("A small but rich anthology of poems by twentieth-century...)

  • Finding the Islands (Finding the Islands Ppr)

    (Collection of poems from the Pulitizer Prize winning auth...)

  • Finding the islands

    (Limited edition broadside issued for the Bookslinger exhi...)

  • Summer Doorways: A Memoir

    ( In 1948, twenty-one, already married and graduated from...)

  • Unframed Originals: Recollections

    ( In this haunting, elegantly written memoir, W. S. Merwi...)

  • The Drunk in the Furnace (The Macmillan Poets Series)

    (Merwin's fourth collection of poems)

  • The Drunk in the Furnace

    (Merwin's fourth collection of poems)

  • The Essential Wyatt (Essential Poets)

    (Book by Wyatt, Thomas, Merwin, W. S.)

  • The Compass Flower: Poems

    (Atheneum, 1977, 1st, Very good., Ex-library. Paperback bo...)

  • West Wind: Supplement of American Poetry Edited by W. S. Merwin for the Poetry Book Society Chrismas 1961

    (11pp, small booklet. Very Good w/ very minute foxing on c...)

  • The Lice: Poems by W.S. Merwin

    (The is a book of W.S. Merwin's poetry published in 1977. ...)

  • Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment

    (Book by Merwin, W. S.)

  • Four French Plays

    (Book by Merwin, W. S.)

  • Opening the Hand

    (Book by Merwin, W. S.)

  • Opening the Hand: Poems

    (Book by Merwin, W. S.)

  • Asian figures

    (Book by Merwin, W. S)

  • From the Spanish Morning

    (Book by Merwin, W. S.)

  • The Lost Upland/Stories of Southwest France by Merwin, W. S. (1993) Paperback

    (First Edition)

  • The Second Four Books of Poems

    ( W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew ...)

  • Unframed Originals: Recollections Reprint Edition by Merwin, W. S. (2004) Paperback
  • The Carrier of Ladders: Poems by W. S. Merwin (1971-06-06)
  • The Lost Upland/Stories of Southwest France by W. S. Merwin (1993-05-03)
  • The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target / The Lice / The Carrier of Ladders / Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment Paperback 1992 W. S. Merwin
  • Unframed Originals: Recollections by W. S. Merwin (2004-11-30)
  • The Second Four Books of Poems   2ND 4 BKS OF POEMS Paperback
  • (The Shadow of Sirius) Author: W. S. Merwin published on (November, 2009)
  • Summer Doorways: A Memoir SUMMER DOORWAYS: A MEMOIR By Merwin, W. S. ( Author )Sep-01-2006 Paperback
  • Regions of Memory: Uncollected Prose, 1949-82 by W. S. Merwin (1986-12-01)
  • (The Second Four Books of Poems) Author: W S Merwin published on (January, 1993)
  • The Moving Target: Poems
  • The Lice: Poems
  • Houses and Travellers
  • (The Shadow of Sirius) Author: W S Merwin published on (September, 2008)
  • The Carrier of Ladders: Poems
  • First Four Books of Poems: A Mask for Janus, the Dancing Bears, Green with Beasts, the Drunk in the Furnace
  • Pieces of Shadow: Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines
  • (East Window: the Asian Translations) Author: W. S. Merwin published on (December, 1999)
  • (The Shadow of Sirius) Author: W S Merwin published on (October, 2009)
  • The Second Four Books of Poems by Merwin, W. S. (1992) Paperback

Membership

Member National Institute Arts and Letters.