W. S. Merwin (1927–2019)
Autor(a) de The Shadow of Sirius
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Obras por W. S. Merwin
Medieval epics : Beowulf; The Song of Roland; The Nibelungenlied; The Poem of the Cid. (1959) — Tradutor — 211 exemplares
The Second Four Books of Poems: The Moving Target / The Lice / The Carrier of Ladders / Writings to an Unfinished… (1992) 176 exemplares
Products of the Perfected Civilization: The Selected Writings of Chamfort (1969) — Editor — 63 exemplares
Sanskrit Love Poetry (Unesco Collection of Representative Works. Indian Series) (1977) 11 exemplares
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 5 exemplares
Japanese Figures 3 exemplares
Feathers From the Hill 2 exemplares
The Drunk in the Furnace 2 exemplares
Signs 2 exemplares
W.S. Merwin reading his Poetry 1 exemplar
Migration 1 exemplar
L'ESSENZIALE II Poesie 1 exemplar
Even Though the Whole World is Burning 1 exemplar
Más hondo antología poética 1 exemplar
For an undersea library 1 exemplar
A Sonnet by Dante 1 exemplar
Robert ParkeHarrison 1 exemplar
The real world of Manuel Cordova 1 exemplar
To Dana For Her Birthday 1 exemplar
West wind : supplement of American poetry 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 922 exemplares
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Contribuidor — 831 exemplares
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contribuidor — 451 exemplares
Lost Classics: Writers on Books Loved and Lost, Overlooked, Under-read, Unavailable, Stolen, Extinct, or Otherwise Out… (2000) — Contribuidor — 301 exemplares
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contribuidor — 151 exemplares
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
On Entering The Sea: The Erotic and Other Poetry of Nizar Qabbani (1996) — Tradutor, algumas edições — 36 exemplares
Buzz Words: Poems About Insects (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2021) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets (Yale Series of Younger Poets) (2019) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
New World Writing: Eighth Mentor Selection - A New Adventure in Modern Reading (1955) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
Everything is Going to be All Right: Poems for When You Really Need Them (2021) — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Antaeus No. 23, Autumn 1976 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Merwin, William Stanley
- Data de nascimento
- 1927-09-30
- Data de falecimento
- 2019-03-15
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Haiku-Pauwela, Hawaii, USA
- Locais de residência
- Union City, New Jersey, USA
Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA - Educação
- Princeton University (BA|1948)
Wyoming Seminary
West Scranton Jurnior High School - Ocupações
- poet
translator
conservationist - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1972)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- 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) (mostrar todos 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)
Membros
Críticas
Summer Doorways: A Memoir por 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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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 87
- Also by
- 70
- Membros
- 3,614
- Popularidade
- #7,006
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 55
- ISBN
- 112
- Línguas
- 4
- Marcado como favorito
- 21
