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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

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Works by James Merrill

The Changing Light at Sandover 323 copies, 3 reviews

Collected Poems 284 copies

Selected Poems, 1946-1985 127 copies

A Different Person: A Memoir 110 copies, 1 review

A Scattering of Salts 84 copies

From the First Nine Poems, 1946-76 83 copies

The (Diblos) Notebook 67 copies, 3 reviews

Divine Comedies 60 copies

Collected Novels and Plays 56 copies

Inner Room 45 copies

Scripts for the Pageant (Author) 38 copies

Recitative: Prose 36 copies

Collected Prose 35 copies

Mirabell: Books of Number 34 copies

Nights and Days 30 copies

Braving the elements; poems 25 copies, 2 reviews

Late Settings 25 copies

The Fire Screen 23 copies

The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace and Other Poems 20 copies

Water Street 17 copies, 1 review

The seraglio 13 copies, 1 review

The Voice of the Poet: James Merrill 12 copies

Merrill: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) 7 copies

The Book of Ephraim 6 copies

A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill 5 copies

The yellow pages: 59 poems 5 copies

Voices From Sandover 4 copies

Two Poems (Phoenix Living Poets) 3 copies

From the cutting-room floor 3 copies

Casas Reflejadas 2 copies

FIRST POEMS 2 copies

Self-Portrait in Tyvek Windbreaker 2 copies

Metamorphosis of 741 (SC) 2 copies

Overdue pilgrimage to Nova Scotia 1 copy

Divinas comedias 1 copy

Marbled Paper (SC) 1 copy

Jim's Books: a Collection of Poems and Short Stories. 1 copy

The Black Swan, and Other Poems 1 copy

Nine Lives 1 copy

FIRE SCREEN, POEMS.|THE 1 copy

Different Person, A Memoir 1 copy

The Image Maker: A Play in One Act 1 copy

Pieces of History {poem} 1 copy

Poetry - A Magazine of Verse, April 1946, Vol LXVIII, No I 1 copy

Santorini: Stopping the Leak (SC) 1 copy

Souvenirs (SC) 1 copy

The New Yorker, Dec. 24, 1979 "Peter's Tattoos" 1 copy

Casual Wear (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th… 1 copy

Three Poems 1 copy

Hoi chilies kai hē deuterē nuchta : kai alla poiēmata 1 copy

Watching the Dance (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature -… 1 copy

Ideas, Etc. (SC) 1 copy

Log {poem} 1 copy

Peter 1 copy

Five Inscriptions 1 copy

Diblos Notebook 1ST Edition 1 copy

The Victor Dog {poem} 1 copy, 1 review

Days of 1935 {poem} 1 copy, 1 review

After the Fire {poem} 1 copy, 1 review

In Monument Valley {poem} 1 copy, 1 review

Last Poems. One of 185 copies. 1 copy

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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (Contributor, some editions) 819 copies, 6 reviews

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor) 644 copies, 3 reviews

A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (Contributor, some editions) 392 copies, 1 review

Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor, some editions) 341 copies, 1 review

Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 243 copies, 4 reviews

The Art of Losing (Contributor) 163 copies, 19 reviews

Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Stonewall Inn Editions) (Contributor) 162 copies, 1 review

Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Contributor) 142 copies

American Religious Poems: An Anthology (Contributor) 128 copies

American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (Contributor) 115 copies, 3 reviews

Selected Poems (Translator, some editions) 89 copies

Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell (Afterword, some editions) 76 copies, 1 review

Man of My Dreams: Provocative Writing on Men Loving Men (Contributor) 68 copies

American Sonnets: An Anthology (Contributor) 57 copies

The Grim Reader (Contributor) 52 copies

Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology (Contributor) 41 copies, 1 review

Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS (Contributor) 30 copies

Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (Contributor) 27 copies

The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships… (Contributor) 18 copies

New World Writing: Second Mentor Selection (Contributor) 11 copies

The Paris Review 84 1982 Summer (Contributor) 6 copies, 1 review

Playbook: Five Plays for a New Theater (Contributor) 5 copies

Locus Solus III-IV, New Poetry, A Special Double Issue (Contributor) 1 copy

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Canonical name

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Merrill, James Ingram

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Burial location

Evergreen Cemetery, Stonington, Connecticut, USA

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Birthplace

New York, New York, USA

Place of death

Tucson, Arizona, USA

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Places of residence

New York, New York, USA

Southampton, New York, USA

Stonington, Connecticut, USA

Tucson, Arizona, USA

Education

Amherst College

Occupations

Relationships

Jackson, David (partner)

Merrill, Charles (brother)

Organizations

American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1971)

Awards and honors

Bollingen Prize (1973)

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Disambiguation notice

Links

James Merrill Papers (Washington University in St. Louis)

James Merrill Papers (Yale University)

Paris Review Interview (1982)

New York Times obituary

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