James Merrill

James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American writer, increasingly regarded as one of the most important 20th century poets in the English language.

Works by Merrill

Since his death, Merrill's work has been anthologized in three divisions: Collected Poems, Collected Prose, and Collected Novels and Plays. Accordingly, his work below is divided upon those same lines.

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Poetry

• The Black Swan (1946)
• First Poems (1951)
• The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace (1959)
• Water Street (1962)
• Nights and Days (1966)
• The Fire Screen (1969)
• Braving the Elements (1972)
• Divine Comedies (1976), including "Lost in Translation" and The Book of Ephraim
• ' (1978)
• Scripts for the Pageant (1980)
• The Changing Light at Sandover (1982)
• From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1976 (1982)
• Late Settings (1985)
• The Inner Room (1988)
• Selected Poems 1946-1985 (1992)
• A Scattering of Salts (1995)
• Collected Poems (2001) ISBN 0375411399

Prose

• Recitative (1986) - essays
• A Different Person (1993) - memoir
• Collected Prose (2004) ISBN 0375411364

Novels and Plays

Novels

• The Seraglio (1957)
• The (Diblos) Notebook (1965)

Drama

• The Birthday (1947)
• The Immortal Husband (1955)
• The Bait (1960)

Collection

• Collected Novels and Plays (2002) ISBN 0375411372