W. S. Merwin bibliography explained
A list of works by or about William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019). Merwin was an American poet, credited with over fifty books of poetry, translation and prose.[1]
Poetry
- Collections
- 1952: A Mask for Janus, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press; awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize, 1952 (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)[2]
- 1954: The Dancing Bears, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)[2]
- 1956: Green with Beasts, New York: Knopf (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)[2]
- 1960: The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Macmillan (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)[2]
- 1963: The Moving Target, New York: Atheneum[2]
- 1966: Collected Poems, New York: Atheneum[2]
- 1967: The Lice, New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2017, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)
- 1969: Animae, San Francisco: Kayak[2]
- 1970: The Carrier of Ladders, New York: Atheneum[2] – winner of the Pulitzer Prize[3]
- 1970: Signs, illustrated by A. D. Moore; Iowa City, Iowa: Stone Wall Press[2]
- 1973: Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment, New York: Atheneum[2]
- 1975: The First Four Books of Poems, containing A Mask for Janus, The Dancing Bears, Green with Beasts, and The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2000, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)[2]
- 1977: The Compass Flower, New York: Atheneum[2]
- 1978: Feathers From the Hill, Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover[2]
- 1982: Finding the Islands, San Francisco: North Point Press[2]
- 1983: Opening the Hand, New York: Atheneum[2]
- 1988: The Rain in the Trees, New York: Knopf[2]
- 1988: Selected Poems, New York: Atheneum[2]
- 1993: The Second Four Books of Poems, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
- 1993: Travels: Poems, New York: Knopf[2] – winner of the 1993 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize[4]
- 1996: The Vixen: Poems, New York: Knopf[2]
- 1997: Flower and Hand: Poems, 1977–1983 Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[2]
- 1998: The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative, a "novel-in-verse" New York: Knopf[5]
- 1999: The River Sound: Poems, New York: Knopf[2]
- 2001: The Pupil, New York: Knopf[2]
- 2005: Migration: New and Selected Poems, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[2] – winner of the National Book Award for Poetry[6]
- 2005: Present Company, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[2]
- 2005: Selected Poems, Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
- 2008
The Shadow of Sirius, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[7] – winner of the Pulitzer Prize; 2009: Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
- 2013: The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin, New York: Library of America
- 2014: The Moon Before Morning, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press;[8] Hexham, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
- 2016: Garden Time, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press;[9] Hexham, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
- 2017: The Essential W.S. Merwin, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press[10]
- List of poems
| width=25% | Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|
| Alba | 2008 | The New Yorker 84/35 (November 3, 2008) | |
| The Blackboard | 2014 | The New Yorker 90/32 (October 20, 2014) | |
| Another Year Comes | 1960 | | The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974) |
| data-sort-value="Asians dying" | The Asians Dying | 1966 | | The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974) |
| Burning Mountain | 1958 | |
| Forgetting clouds | 2014 | The New Yorker (April 21, 2014)[11] | |
| data-sort-value="Herds" | The Herds | 1966 | | The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974) |
| Lemuels Blessing | 1962 | | The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974) |
| data-sort-value="Old room" | The Old Room | 1969 | | The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974) |
| Peril | 1974 | | |
| Peasant | 1967 | | The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974) |
| Plea for a Captive | 1960 | | The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974) |
| The Portland (Going Out) | 1957 | | The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974) |
| Resolution | 1964 | | The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974) |
| Shadow Questions | 2016 | Garden Time (2016) |
| Telephone ringing in the labyrinth | 2012 | The New York Review of Books 59/9 (May 24, 2012) | |
| data-sort-value="Way to the river" | The Way to the River | 1962 | | The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974) |
| data-sort-value="Widow" | The Widow | 1966 | | The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974) | |
Prose
- 1970: The Miner's Pale Children, New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 1994, New York: Holt)[2]
- 1977: Houses and Travellers, New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 1994, New York: Holt)[2]
- Regions of Memory
- 1982: Unframed Originals: Recollections
- 1992: The Lost Uplands: Stories of Southwest France, New York: Knopf
- 2002: The Mays of Ventadorn, National Geographic Directions Series; Washington: National Geographic[2]
- 2004: The Ends of the Earth, essays, Washington: Shoemaker & Hoard[2]
- 2005: Summer Doorways: A Memoir
- 2007: The Book of Fables, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
Plays
- 1956: Darkling Child (with Dido Milroy), produced this year[2]
- 1957: Favor Island, produced this year at Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts (broadcast in 1958 by Third Programme, British Broadcasting Corporation)[2]
- 1961: The Gilded West, produced this year at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, England[2]
Translations
- 1959: The Poem of the Cid, London: Dent (American edition, 1962, New York: New American Library)[2]
- 1960: The Satires of Persius, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press[2]
- 1961: Some Spanish Ballads, London: Abelard (American edition: Spanish Ballads, 1961, New York: Doubleday Anchor)[2]
- 1962: The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: His Fortunes and Adversities, a Spanish novella; New York: Doubleday Anchor[2]
- 1963: The Song of Roland[4]
- 1969: Selected Translations, 1948–1968, New York: Atheneum[2] – winner of the PEN Translation Prize[4]
- 1969: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, poems by Pablo Neruda; London: Jonathan Cape (reprinted in 2004 with an introduction by Christina Garcia, New York: Penguin Books)[2]
- 1969: Products of the Perfected Civilization, Selected Writings of Chamfort, also author of the introduction; New York: Macmillan
- 1969: Voices: Selected Writings of Antonio Porchia, Chicago: Follett (reprinted in 1988 and 2003, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)[2]
- 1969: Transparence of the World, poems by Jean Follain, New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 2003, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press)[2]
- 1971: "Eight Quechua Poems", The Hudson Review[12]
- 1973: Asian Figures, New York: Atheneum
- 1974: Osip Mandelstam: Selected Poems (with Clarence Brown), New York: Oxford University Press (reprinted in 2004 as The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, New York: New York Review of Books)[2]
- 1977: Sanskrit Love Poetry (with J. Moussaieff Masson), New York: Columbia University Press (published in 1981 as Peacock's Egg: Love Poems from Ancient India, San Francisco: North Point Press)[2]
- 1977: Vertical Poetry, poems by Roberto Juarroz; San Francisco: Kayak (reprinted in 1988; San Francisco: North Point Press)[2]
- 1978: Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis (with George E. Dimock, Jr.), New York: Oxford University Press[2]
- 1979: Selected Translations, 1968–1978, New York: Atheneum[2]
- 1981: Robert the Devil, an anonymous French play; with an introduction by the translator; Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover[2]
- 1985: Four French Plays, including Robert the Devil; The Rival of His Master and Turcaret by Alain-René Lesage; and The False Confessions by Pierre de Marivaux; New York: Atheneum
- 1985: From the Spanish Morning, consisting of Spanash Ballads by Lope de Rueda and Eufemia: The Life of Lazarillo de Torres (originally translated in Tulane Drama Review, December 1958); New York: Atheneum
- 1989: Sun at Midnight, poems by Musō Soseki (with Soiku Shigematsu)[4]
- 1996: Pieces of Shadow: Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines
- 1998: East Window: The Asian Translations, translated poems from earlier collections, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
- 2000: Purgatorio from The Divine Comedy of Dante; New York: Knopf[2]
- 2002: Gawain and the Green Knight, a New Verse Translation, New York: Knopf;[2] 2003: Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
- 2013: Selected Translations, translated poems from 1948–2010, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
- 2013: Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press (with Takako Lento)
- 2013: Sun At Midnight, poems by Muso Soseki, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press (with Soiku Shigematsu) (updated and reissued)[8]
- 2018: Purgatorio: A New Translation, from The Divine Comedy of Dante, Copper Canyon Press
Editor
- 1961: West Wind: Supplement of American Poetry, London: Poetry Book Society[2]
- 1996: Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology (compiler), Washington: Counterpoint[2]
Notes and References
- Web site: Amazon.com Official Profile . Amazon . 7 October 2012.
- http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=4676 Merwin biography
- http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Poetry "Poetry"
- News release, "Poet W.S. Merwin Reads at Library of Congress October 15, September 22, 1997, Library of Congress website, retrieved June 8, 2010
- https://www.amazon.com/Folding-Cliffs-Narrative-W-S-Merwin/dp/0375401482 "The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (Hardcover)"
- https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-2005 "National Book Awards – 2005"
- Farr, Sheila, "Poet ponders life's contrasts in 'The Shadow of Sirius'", book review, October 30, 2010, The Seattle Times, retrieved June 8, 2010
- Web site: W.S. Merwin. www.coppercanyonpress.org. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20190330173509/https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/memorial/. Mar 30, 2019.
- Web site: Copper Canyon Press: Garden Time, poetry by W.S. Merwin. January 21, 2018.
- Web site: Copper Canyon Press: The Essential W.S. Merwin, Poetry by W.S. Merwin. Coppercanyonpress.org. 21 January 2018.
- April 21, 2014 . Forgetting clouds . The New Yorker . 90 . 9 . 56 . 2018-11-26.
- http://www.hudsonreview.com/new/article-index.php Complete Index
