W. S. Merwin (1927–2019)
Auteur de The Shadow of Sirius
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Crédit image: Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University
Œuvres de W. S. Merwin
Medieval epics : Beowulf; The Song of Roland; The Nibelungenlied; The Poem of the Cid. (1959) — Traducteur — 211 exemplaires
The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target / The Lice / The Carrier of Ladders / Writings to an Unfinished… (1992) 175 exemplaires
Products of the Perfected Civilization: The Selected Writings of Chamfort (1969) — Directeur de publication — 63 exemplaires
Sanskrit Love Poetry (Unesco Collection of Representative Works. Indian Series) (1977) 11 exemplaires
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 5 exemplaires
Japanese Figures 3 exemplaires
Feathers From the Hill 2 exemplaires
The Drunk in the Furnace 2 exemplaires
Signs 2 exemplaires
W.S. Merwin reading his Poetry 1 exemplaire
Migration 1 exemplaire
L'ESSENZIALE II Poesie 1 exemplaire
Even Though the Whole World is Burning 1 exemplaire
Más hondo antología poética 1 exemplaire
For an undersea library 1 exemplaire
A Sonnet by Dante 1 exemplaire
Robert ParkeHarrison 1 exemplaire
The real world of Manuel Cordova 1 exemplaire
To Dana For Her Birthday 1 exemplaire
West wind : supplement of American poetry 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Vingt poèmes d'amour et une chanson désespérée (1924) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 3,778 exemplaires
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 919 exemplaires
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Contributeur — 832 exemplaires
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributeur — 452 exemplaires
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Contributeur — 301 exemplaires
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributeur — 151 exemplaires
Satyres de Perse. Trad. nouv. par M. Carron de Gibert... ancien chef de brigade au corps d'artillerie. Avec des notes &… (0034) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 116 exemplaires
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contributeur — 86 exemplaires
On Entering The Sea: The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qabbani (1996) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 36 exemplaires
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets (Yale Series of Younger Poets) (2019) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
New World Writing: Eighth Mentor Selection - A New Adventure in Modern Reading (1955) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires
Everything is Going to be All Right: Poems for When You Really Need Them (2021) — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Antaeus No. 23, Autumn 1976 — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Merwin, William Stanley
- Date de naissance
- 1927-09-30
- Date de décès
- 2019-03-15
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Union City, New Jersey, USA
Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA - Études
- Princeton University (BA|1948)
Wyoming Seminary
West Scranton Jurnior High School - Professions
- poet
translator
conservationist - Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1972)
- Prix et distinctions
- Bollingen Prize (1979)
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1998)
Shelley Memorial Award (1973/1974)
Wallace Stevens Award (1994)
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1973)
Lannan Literary Award (2004) (tout afficher 17)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1957)
Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters (2003)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (2010-2011)
Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement (2010)
Aiken Taylor Award (1990)
Zbigniew Herbert Literary Award (2013)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1971, 2009)
National Book Award for Poetry (2005)
Tanning Prize (1994)
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize (1994)
PEN Translation Prize (1969)
Membres
Critiques
Summer Doorways: A Memoir par W. S. Merwin
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.
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.
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.
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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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 87
- Aussi par
- 70
- Membres
- 3,612
- Popularité
- #7,014
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 55
- ISBN
- 112
- Langues
- 4
- Favoris
- 21
