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Also Known As James Ingram Merrill
Born March 3, 1926 • New York City • New York
Died February 6, 1995 (aged 68)
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize • National Book Award • Bollingen Prize (1973)
Notable Works “The Changing Light at Sandover”
Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet and translator
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John Ashbery
American poet
Charles Simic
Charles Simic
American poet
W.H. Auden
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Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
Elizabeth Bishop, 1938
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
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Robert Hass
American poet and translator
John Berryman
John Berryman
American poet
Wallace Stevens, 1952
Wallace Stevens
American poet
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C.K. Williams
American poet
Conrad Aiken.
Conrad Aiken
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Philip Levine
Philip Levine
American poet
Mona Van Duyn
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American poet
William Carlos Williams, wearing glasses and a bow tie, sits indoors holding a book with bookshelves and cabinets in the background, circa 1955.
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Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov
American writer
Stanley Kunitz, c. 1987
Stanley Kunitz
American poet
Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
American poet
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Richard Wilbur
American poet

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