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W. S. Merwin (1927–2019)

Auteur van The Shadow of Sirius

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W. S. Merwin was born William Stanley Merwin in New York City on September 30, 1927. He received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1948 and did some graduate work there in Romance languages. He worked as a tutor and translator while writing poetry. In 1952, his first collection of toon meer poetry, A Mask for Janus, was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize. He wrote numerous collections of poetry including Green with Beasts, The Moving Target, The Lice, The Compass Flower, The Rain in the Trees, The River Sound, The Moon Before Morning, and Garden Time. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for The Carrier of Ladders and in 2009 for The Shadow of Sirius, the National Book Award in 2005 for Migration: New and Selected Poems, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for The Vixen. He also published essays, short fiction, memoirs, and translations of Dante, Pablo Neruda, and Osip Mandelstam. Merwin's other works included Unframed Originals, The Lost Upland, The Ends of the Earth, and Summer Doorways. He also received the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the PEN Translation Prize, the Shelley Memorial Award, the Tanning Prize and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. He died on March 15, 2019 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van W. S. Merwin

The Shadow of Sirius (2008) 329 exemplaren
Migration: New & Selected Poems (2005) 212 exemplaren
The Rain in the Trees (1988) 165 exemplaren
The First Four Books of Poems (1975) 136 exemplaren
The Lice (1967) 112 exemplaren
Troubadour in Zuid-Frankrijk (2002) 99 exemplaren
Selected Poems (1988) 91 exemplaren
Travels (1992) 90 exemplaren
The Vixen (1996) 87 exemplaren
Present Company (2005) 86 exemplaren
Merwin: Collected Poems 1952-1993 (2013) — Auteur — 82 exemplaren
The Moon Before Morning (2014) 78 exemplaren
The Miner's Pale Children (1970) 73 exemplaren
The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (1998) 72 exemplaren
Garden Time (2016) 71 exemplaren
Flower & Hand: Poems, 1977-1983 (1996) 69 exemplaren
Unframed Originals: Recollections (1982) 68 exemplaren
The Essential W.S. Merwin (2017) 66 exemplaren
Summer Doorways (2005) 62 exemplaren
Merwin: Collected Poems 1996-2011 (1672) — Auteur — 61 exemplaren
The River Sound: Poems (1999) 56 exemplaren
The Carrier of Ladders: Poems (1970) 55 exemplaren
The Book of Fables (2007) 52 exemplaren
Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology (1996) — Redacteur — 49 exemplaren
The Moving Target (1963) 47 exemplaren
Houses and Travellers (1977) 46 exemplaren
The Pupil: Poems (2001) 45 exemplaren
The Compass Flower: Poems (1977) 45 exemplaren
The Ends of the Earth: Essays (2004) 44 exemplaren
East Window: Poems from Asia (1998) 40 exemplaren
Selected Translations 1948-2011 (2013) 35 exemplaren
Selected Translations 1948-1968 (1968) 26 exemplaren
Unchopping a Tree (2014) 25 exemplaren
Opening the Hand (1983) 21 exemplaren
Asian figures (1973) 19 exemplaren
The Drunk in the Furnace (1960) 14 exemplaren
Green with Beasts (1956) 14 exemplaren
REGIONS OF MEMORY (1986) 11 exemplaren
Selected Translations, 1968-1978 (1979) 11 exemplaren
Some Spanish Ballads (1961) 9 exemplaren
What Is a Garden? (2016) 9 exemplaren
From the Spanish Morning (1985) 9 exemplaren
A Mask for Janus (1970) 9 exemplaren
Animae (1969) 7 exemplaren
Four French plays (1985) 5 exemplaren
The Dancing Bears (1954) 5 exemplaren
Cuatro salmos (2007) 3 exemplaren
Japanese Figures 3 exemplaren
Signs 2 exemplaren
Au miroir de la montagne (2015) 1 exemplaar
Migration 1 exemplaar
Three Poems. (1968) 1 exemplaar
A Sonnet by Dante 1 exemplaar
A New Right Arm (1963) 1 exemplaar
Mary (1976) 1 exemplaar

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I wonder if Merwin had not had all the chance opportunities in his early life, if he would have become the man he was. His seems to be a life well-lived.
 
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ccayne | 2 andere besprekingen | May 22, 2022 |
Merwin's poems have a simplicity of respect and language that echoes from the page, and I found the sequences here to be especially powerful poems that I look forward to revisiting. The shorter poems often had lovely language, but not the level of emotional impact the longer ones achieved. Merwin is a poet I'll read and re-read, though, and gladly recommend.
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whitewavedarling | Apr 7, 2022 |
Much too dependent on mythology and arbitrary author-determined symbolism for my taste. Also, would it kill you to use some punctuation? If I spend all my time trying to figure out where the commas and the semicolons go, I don't have any time to sift for meaning...or even a bit of crisp diction amid all the muddled language.
 
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slimikin | 3 andere besprekingen | Mar 27, 2022 |
Merwin has an odd style that at times bores me and drives me nuts and then really fascinates and captures me. I especially like his descriptions of people and the ways they speak. So often he's elaborating on landscapes and histories and plants, but when he zeroes in on an intimate moment with another person, he's really powerful..
 
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