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Name: James Merrill
Variant Name: James Ingram Merrill
Birth Date: March 3, 1926
Death Date: February 7, 1995
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: Tucson, Arizona, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, author, poet, playwright

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Biography of James (Ingram) Merrill
8,539 words, approx. 29 pages
With the completion of The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), which presents the revised "sacred books" of his philosophical verse trilogy with the addition of a coda, James Merrill earned his place as one of the most original and major poets of the...
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Biography of James (Ingram) Merrill
7,936 words, approx. 27 pages
James Merrill's poetic career has moved steadily from accomplishment to vision; it is no extravagance to predict that his "sacred" books, when completed, will be regarded as a major poetic statement. But "sensational effects have subtle causes,"...
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Biography of James Merrill
4,255 words, approx. 14 pages
A lyrical and mystical poet often compared to W. H. Auden and William Butler Yeats, James Merrill (1926-1995) is best known for his series of poems inspired by the automatic writing and messages of spirit guides through the medium of an Ouija board....


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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James Merrill Information
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James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet and one of the most acclaimed American poets of his generation. His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist (if...


News and Journals
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The Independent - London
OBITUARY: James Merrill
02/09/1995: 893 words, approx. 3 pages
James Ingram Merrill, poet: born New York City 3 March 1926; died Tucson, Arizona 6 February 1995. James Merrill was the son of a grotesquely successful stockbroker, co-founder of the firm Merrill Lynch. His childhood was exclusive and pampered, until his father, a...
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World Literature Today
James Merrill. Collected Poems. (book review)
03/22/2002: 584 words, approx. 2 pages
J. D. McClatchy, Stephen Yenser, eds. New York. Knopf. 2001. xxv + 885 pages $40. ISBN 0-375-41139-9 (70941-X paper) THE EROTIC LIFE was James Merrill's central theme. But in Merrill's poetry, passion runs its course without great politics, with precious little at stake....
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AP Features
State news of national interest
5/4/2007: 467 words, approx. 2 pages
EASTSTAMFORD, Conn. (AP) _ A man faces up to five years in prison for tampering with grape juice that made 40 people sick following communion at Calvary Baptist Church in Darien. Wendell Woodroffe, 29, pleaded guilty to charges that he poured dishwashing liquid into the...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Ross Labrie
10,766 words, approx. 36 pages
In the following excerpt, Labrie surveys the poetry of Merrill's Water Street, Nights and Days, and Braving the Elements.
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Critical Essay by Timothy Materer
8,880 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Materer probes the mythic unconscious of Merrill's poetry.
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Critical Essay by J. D. McClatchy
8,553 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following essay, McClatchy studies the elusive poems of Country of a Thousand Years of Peace.
 


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