biography
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Merwin, W(illiam) S(tanley)
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| lived:
| (1927– )
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| biography:
| Poet, born in New York City, USA. He studied at Princeton, tutored Robert Graves' son in Majorca (1950), and has been based in England, France, and Hawaii. He is known for his plays, prose parables, and translations as well as for his Surrealist poetry, as in Opening the Hands (1983). Later works include Travels: Poems (1993), The Folding Cliffs (1998), and The River Sound (1999). He received the Pulitzer Prize for The Carrier of Ladders (1970). |
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