James Merrill (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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James Merrill was known mainly as a poet, but he also produced novels, essays, and plays. Two years before his death, his memoir A Different Person: A Memoir appeared.
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James Merrill was a major voice in American poetry after 1967, when he won his first National Book Award for Nights and Days. His 1972 collection Braving the Elements won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, and Divine Comedies won the Pulitzer Prize four years later. He was awarded another National Book Award for Mirabell: Books of...
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