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James Merrill

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Also known as James Ingram Merrill, James I. Merrill

American poet (1926–1995)

Person · Open Library

Works
82

Top works

  • [Northern lights
  • From a notebook
  • The transformation of Rilke
  • To remember J.J.J.
  • The yellow pages

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1930-07-21
cool jazzjazzvocal jazz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
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Total plays
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James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1977) for Divine Comedies. His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist (if deeply emotional) lyric poetry of his early career, and the epic narrative of occult communication with spirits and angels, titled The Changing Light at Sandover, which dominated his later career. Although most of his published work was poetry, he also wrote ess

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Quotes

  • Always that same old story—Father Time and Mother Earth,A marriage on the rocks.
  • Since it had never truly fit, why wearThe shoe of prose? In verse the feet went bare.

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