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James Merrill (1926–1995)

Author of The Changing Light at Sandover

Includes the names: James Merril, Merrill James, James Ingram Merrill

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The Changing Light at Sandover 356 copies, 3 reviews
Collected Poems 310 copies
A Different Person: A Memoir 126 copies, 2 reviews
The (Diblos) Notebook 72 copies, 3 reviews
Divine Comedies 67 copies
Inner Room 51 copies
Collected Prose 38 copies
Nights and Days 37 copies
Late Settings 30 copies
Braving the elements; poems 28 copies, 2 reviews
The Fire Screen 27 copies
Water Street 22 copies, 1 review
The seraglio 16 copies, 1 review
The Book of Ephraim 11 copies, 1 review
FIRST POEMS 3 copies
Nine Lives 1 copy
Samos 1 copy
In Monument Valley {poem} 1 copy, 1 review
Peter 1 copy
Log {poem} 1 copy
After the Fire {poem} 1 copy, 1 review
The Victor Dog {poem} 1 copy, 1 review
Days of 1935 {poem} 1 copy, 1 review
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (Contributor) 1,212 copies, 9 reviews
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (Contributor, some editions) 897 copies, 7 reviews
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor) 726 copies, 3 reviews
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (Contributor, some editions) 428 copies, 1 review
Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor, some editions) 375 copies, 2 reviews
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 272 copies, 4 reviews
The Art of Losing (Contributor) 189 copies, 20 reviews
The Best American Poetry 1994 (Contributor) 169 copies, 1 review
The Best American Poetry 1996 (Contributor) 168 copies, 1 review
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (Contributor) 159 copies, 1 review
American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (Contributor) 130 copies, 3 reviews
Selected Poems (Translator, some editions) 79 copies
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