James Merrill
James Merrill was born on March 3, 1926, in New York City and died on February 6, 1995. From the mid-1950s on, he lived in Stonington, Connecticut, and for extended periods he also had houses in Athens and Key West. From The Black Swan (1946) through A Scattering of Salts (1995), he wrote twelve books of poems, ten of them published in trade editions, as well as The Changing Light at Sandover (1982). He also published two plays, The Immortal Husband (1956) and The Bait (1960); two novels, The Seraglio (1957, reissued 1987) and The (Diblos) Notebook (1965, reissued 1994); a...
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The Changing Light at Sandover
Trade Paperback | 640 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American; Poetry - Epic; Literary Collections - American
978-0-375-71174-9 (0-375-71174-0)
August 2, 2011 | $34.00
A welcome return to paperback: James Merrill’s most famous and celebrated work.
Trade Paperback | 640 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American; Poetry - Epic; Literary Collections - American
978-0-375-71174-9 (0-375-71174-0)
August 2, 2011 | $34.00
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A welcome return to paperback: James Merrill’s most famous and celebrated work.
Collected Novels and Plays
eBook | 688 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-307-55521-2 (0-307-55521-6)
March 9, 2011 | $21.99
Following the widely celebrated Collected Poems, this second volume in the series of James Merrill’s works brings us Merrill as novelist and playwright. Just as in his poems we come upon prose pieces, dramatic dialogue, and even a short play in verse, in his novels and plays we find the rhythms...
Written by James Merrill
eBook | 688 pages | Knopf Group E-Books | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-307-55521-2 (0-307-55521-6)
March 9, 2011 | $21.99
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Following the widely celebrated Collected Poems, this second volume in the series of James Merrill’s works brings us Merrill as novelist and playwright. Just as in his poems we come upon prose pieces, dramatic dialogue, and even a short play in verse, in his novels and plays we find the rhythms...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Selected Poems
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-375-71166-4 (0-375-71166-X)
October 28, 2008 | $19.00
James Merrill himself once called his body of work “chronicles of love and loss,” and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his own life—comic and haunting, exotic and domestic—to shape a portrait that in turn mirrored the image of our world and our moment. This...
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-375-71166-4 (0-375-71166-X)
October 28, 2008 | $19.00
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James Merrill himself once called his body of work “chronicles of love and loss,” and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his own life—comic and haunting, exotic and domestic—to shape a portrait that in turn mirrored the image of our world and our moment. This...
Collected Novels and Plays
Trade Paperback | 688 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-375-71083-4 (0-375-71083-3)
October 18, 2005 | $35.00
Following the widely celebrated Collected Poems, this second volume in the series of James Merrill’s works brings us Merrill as novelist and playwright. Just as in his poems we come upon prose pieces, dramatic dialogue, and even a short play in verse, in his novels and plays we find the rhythms...
Written by James Merrill
Trade Paperback | 688 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-375-71083-4 (0-375-71083-3)
October 18, 2005 | $35.00
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Following the widely celebrated Collected Poems, this second volume in the series of James Merrill’s works brings us Merrill as novelist and playwright. Just as in his poems we come upon prose pieces, dramatic dialogue, and even a short play in verse, in his novels and plays we find the rhythms...
Also available as an
eBook.
Collected Prose
Hardcover | 752 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography; Literary Criticism & Collections
978-0-375-41136-6 (0-375-41136-4)
October 26, 2004 | $55.00
Following James Merrill’s widely celebrated Collected Poems and Collected Novels and Plays, this volume gives us, most intimately, the man himself and his charmingly straightforward exploration of how he became himself. As much as any poet of our time, Merrill conceived of his work and his life as warp and woof...
Written by James Merrill
Hardcover | 752 pages | Knopf | Biography & Autobiography; Literary Criticism & Collections
978-0-375-41136-6 (0-375-41136-4)
October 26, 2004 | $55.00
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Following James Merrill’s widely celebrated Collected Poems and Collected Novels and Plays, this volume gives us, most intimately, the man himself and his charmingly straightforward exploration of how he became himself. As much as any poet of our time, Merrill conceived of his work and his life as warp and woof...
Collected Poems
Trade Paperback | 912 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-375-70941-8 (0-375-70941-X)
November 5, 2002 | $41.95
The publication of James Merrill's Collected Poems is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication and virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened and his voice took on its characteristic richness. In book after book...
Written by James Merrill
Trade Paperback | 912 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-375-70941-8 (0-375-70941-X)
November 5, 2002 | $41.95
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The publication of James Merrill's Collected Poems is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication and virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened and his voice took on its characteristic richness. In book after book...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Collected Poems
Hardcover | 912 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-375-41139-7 (0-375-41139-9)
February 27, 2001 | $60.00
The publication of James Merrill's Collected Poems is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication and virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened and his voice took on its characteristic richness. In book after book...
Written by James Merrill
Hardcover | 912 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-375-41139-7 (0-375-41139-9)
February 27, 2001 | $60.00
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The publication of James Merrill's Collected Poems is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication and virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened and his voice took on its characteristic richness. In book after book...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Inner Room
Trade Paperback | pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-679-72049-2 (0-679-72049-9)
October 26, 1988 | $21.00
James Merrill's new collection, The Inner Room, combines symmetry with surprise.The first and last of its five parts include, in addition to diverse two masterly long poems each ('Morning Glory' and 'A Room at the Heart of Things' in Part I and 'Walks in Rome' and 'Losing the Marbles' in Part...
Written by James Merrill
Trade Paperback | pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-679-72049-2 (0-679-72049-9)
October 26, 1988 | $21.00
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James Merrill's new collection, The Inner Room, combines symmetry with surprise.The first and last of its five parts include, in addition to diverse two masterly long poems each ('Morning Glory' and 'A Room at the Heart of Things' in Part I and 'Walks in Rome' and 'Losing the Marbles' in Part...
