The collection consists of thirteen letters written by Merwin, including: three letters to Mr. Gregor, 1955, contributing poems, with questions about their publication; also, ten letters to Tambimuttu, 1956-1957, contributing poems, with news about his other writing projects, including the unpublished collection The Ark of Silence, with some observations on other poets, and comments on payment and his financial situation.
In Rare Books and Manuscripts, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (#1965-0010R/VF Lit)
Source of Acquisition
Purchased from House of Books, 1965.
Biographical or Historical Sketch
William Stanley Merwin was born in New York, raised in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and educated at Princeton. He worked abroad as a tutor and translator before publishing his first collection of poetry in 1952. He returned to the United States and built a career around writing, producing translations, fiction, drama, and especially a large and respected collection of poetry. An excellent technical poet, Merwin helped rejuvenate traditional forms and has created a complex, often difficult, but accomplished and rewarding body of verse. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1971 for The Carrier of Ladders.
Binding notes
Housed in ShareBox 081 boxShare081 GST/P/1/6 c.1 (Archival/Manuscript Material) bound in ShareBox 081
