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Bookmark or Share- W. S. Merwin | Poetry FoundationWilliam Stanley (W.S.) Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and raised in New Jersey and Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of a Presbyterian minister. His numerous collections of poetry, his translations, and his books of prose have won praise over seven decades.
- Remembering W.S. Merwin | Poetry FoundationW.S. Merwin (1927-2019) was a prolific, leading American writer whose poetry, translations, and prose won praise and broad readerships over seven decades. He was one of contemporary poetry's great poets of ethical concern and conscience, a poet who helped generations of others to find new ways for poetry to embody anti-war, environmental, and ...
- W.S. MerwinMerwin has also translated both Dante’s Purgatorio and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, for which he won the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Gold Medal for Poetry and the Academy of American Poets’ Howard Morton Landon Translation Prize. In 1999, W.S. Merwin was named Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress for a jointly-held ...
- W.S. Merwin | Biography, Books, & Facts | BritannicaW.S. Merwin, American poet and translator known for the spare style of his poetry, in which he expressed his concerns about the alienation of humans from their environment. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Carrier of Ladders and for The Shadow of Sirius. Learn more about Merwin’s life and work.
- W. S. Merwin - WikipediaWilliam Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement , Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration.
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