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    Commons has media related to W. S. Merwin. The Merwin Conservancy W. S. Merwin at Poets.org Profile and poems of W. S. Merwin, including audio files, at...
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  • A list of works by or about William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019). Merwin was an American poet, credited with over fifty books of...
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    Donald Hall 2007–2008: Charles Simic 2008–2010: Kay Ryan 2010–2011: W. S. Merwin 2011–2012: Philip Levine 2012–2014: Natasha Trethewey 2014–2015: Charles...
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    translated into many languages; in English, the translation was made by poet W. S. Merwin in 1969. The book belongs to Neruda's youthful period and is often described...
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    O'Neill attended but did not graduate. Writer Selden Edwards and poet W. S. Merwin graduated from Princeton. American novelist Jodi Picoult and author David...
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    screenwriter Tom Stoppard, Orange is the New Black author, Piper Kerman, and W. S. Merwin among others. The Tutti Festival is a semi-annual festival that features...
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  • William Henry Davies W. S. Gilbert – William Schwenck Gilbert W. S. Graham – William Sydney Graham W. S. Merwin – William Stanley Merwin W. Somerset Maugham –...
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  • about former United States Poet Laureate and environmental activist W. S. Merwin. The film is directed and produced by Stefan Schaefer, and screened at...
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    true-to-form examples being published by noted American poets John Hollander, W. S. Merwin and Elise Paschen as well as by Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali...
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    and modern poets, including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, John Ciardi, W. S. Merwin, and Stanley Lombardo, have also produced translations of all or parts...
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    Merwin, Hulbert, and Co. or Merwin Hulbert was an American firearms designer and marketer based in New York City which produced revolvers and rifles from...
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  • Merwin or Merwyn may refer to: Merwin (name), or Merwyn, a surname and masculine given name W.S. Merwin (1927–2019), American poet. United States Merwin...
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  • number of Zen schools of thought. Voces (1943), English translation by W. S. Merwin: Voices, Copper Canyon Press, 2003, ISBN 1-55659-189-6 Bolleter, Ross...
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    25, 2022. Retrieved May 12, 2023. Smith, Harrison (March 15, 2019). "W.S. Merwin, poet of austere lyricism who twice won the Pulitzer Prize, dies at 91"...
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    height from 1947 to 1959, when W. H. Auden was its judge. His then-young poets included Adrienne Rich, James Wright, W. S. Merwin, John Ashbery, and John Hollander...
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    verse Moses Hadas and John McLean, 1936 - prose Charles R. Walker, 1958 W. S. Merwin and George E. Dimock Jr., 1978 – verse Paul Roche, 1998 – verse (Euripides:...
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    novelist Gabriel García Márquez and the contemporary poets Edward Field, W. S. Merwin, Charles Simic, James Wright and Pablo Neruda, whom he calls "the master...
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  • and professor. His first book of poems, Shells (1999), was selected by W. S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His many honors include the 2005...
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    MacArthur, playwright and screenwriter The Menzingers, punk band W. S. Merwin, 17th U.S. Poet Laureate Jason Miller, actor, director, and Pulitzer Prize–winning...
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    – see above. George Oppen 1962 poem "Leviathan". There is a poem by W. S. Merwin with the same title. The narrative history book Against His-Story, Against...
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  • Wallace, William Gaddis, Lydia Davis, William H. Gass, Steve Erickson and W. S. Merwin. The foundation has also recognized people known as much for their public...
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    Marjorie. "Apocalypse Then: Merwin and the Sorrows of Literary History" in Nelson, Cary and Folsom, Ed (eds). W. S. Merwin: Essays on the Poetry (University...
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  • (1863–1915) Donna Marie Merritt (born 1965) Thomas Merton (1915–1968) W. S. Merwin (1927–2019) Tom Meschery (born 1938) Sharon Mesmer (born 1960) Sarah...
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  • Hart Crane, Eli Siegel, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich, as well as W. S. Merwin, Pablo Neruda, Denise Levertov, and Derek Walcott. In 2018, the magazine...
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    "East of the Sun and West of the Moon", The Dancing Bears, 1954, by W. S. Merwin East of the Sun and West of the Moon retold by Kathleen and Michael Hague...
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    Ancient India. 1981. The Peacock's Egg: Love Poems from Ancient India, W. S. Merwin and J. Moussaieff Masson, eds. ISBN 0-86547-059-6 1984. The Assault on...
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    in the plot-line of several novels, and in poems such as U.S. poet laureate W. S. Merwin's "The Chain to Her Leg". In popular culture, Topsy is often...
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    same fate as the great auk in his short poem "A Caution to Everybody". W. S. Merwin mentions the great auk in a short litany of extinct animals in his poem...
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    anthologies. The press achieved national attention when Copper Canyon poet W.S. Merwin won the 2005 National Book Award for Poetry in the same year another...
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  • influential poets while he taught at Princeton. They include W. S. Merwin and John Berryman. Merwin later published an anthology dedicated to Blackmur and Berryman...
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