James Merrill (1926–1995)

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1. James Merrill

   Author of Collected Poems, Collected Novels and Plays, Collected Prose

2. John Ashbery

   Author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, A Wave, And the Stars Were Shining: Poems

3. Henry James

   Author of Collected Travel Writings: The Continent, Henry James : Complete Stories 1884-1891 (Library of America), Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America

4. Jorie Graham

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5. Robert Lowell

   Author of Life Studies and For the Union Dead, Imitations, Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs

6. Robert Pinsky

   Author of The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide, The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996, The Situation of Poetry

7. Wallace Stevens

   Author of Collected poems, Wallace Stevens : Collected Poetry and Prose (Library of America), The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination

8. Anne Carson

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9. Elizabeth Bishop

   Author of The Complete Poems, 1927–1979, The Collected Prose, One Art

10. W.S. Merwin

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11. John Berryman

    Author of The Dream Songs, John Berryman: Collected Poems 1937-1971, Henry's Fate and Other Poems, 1967-1972

12. W. H. Auden

    Author of Collected Poems, Forewords and Afterwords, The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings, 1927-1939

13. John Dos Passos

    Author of Novels, 1920-1925: One Man's Initiation: 1917, Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer (The Library of America), John Dos Passos: Travel Books and Other Writings 1916-1941

14. John Hollander

    Author of American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 2: Herman Melville to Stickney; American Indian Poetry; Folk Songs and Spi, Selected Poetry

15. Thom Gunn

    Author of Collected Poems, The Man with Night Sweats, The Occasions of Poetry

16. Harry Mathews

    Author of The Journalist, 20 Lines a Day, The Case of the Persevering Maltese: Collected Essays (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))

17. James Agee

    Author of James Agee: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, A Death in the Family, Shorter Fiction (Library of America), Film Writing and Selected Journalism

18. Thornton Wilder

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19. Dawn Powell

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20. Ezra Pound

    Author of The Cantos of Ezra Pound, Literary Essays of Ezra Pound, The translations of Ezra Pound