A list of works by or about William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019). Merwin was an American poet, credited with over fifty books of poetry, translation and prose.

Poetry Collections 1952: A Mask for Janus, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press; awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize, 1952 (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975)Merwin biography at Poetry Foundation, Accessed October 23, 2010 1954: The Dancing Bears, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975) 1956: Green with Beasts, New York: Knopf (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975) 1960: The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Macmillan (reprinted as part of The First Four Books of Poems, 1975) 1963: The Moving Target, New York: Atheneum 1966: Collected Poems, New York: Atheneum 1967: The Lice, New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2017, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press) 1969: Animae, San Francisco: Kayak 1970: The Carrier of Ladders, New York: Atheneum – winner of the Pulitzer Prize"Poetry". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-04-08. 1970: Signs, illustrated by A. D. Moore; Iowa City, Iowa: Stone Wall Press 1973: Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment, New York: Atheneum 1975: The First Four Books of Poems, containing A Mask for Janus, The Dancing Bears, Green with Beasts, and The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Atheneum; (reprinted in 2000, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press) 1977: The Compass Flower, New York: Atheneum 1978: Feathers From the Hill, Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover 1982: Finding the Islands, San Francisco: North Point Press 1983: Opening the Hand, New York: Atheneum 1988: The Rain in the Trees, New York: Knopf 1988: Selected Poems, New York: Atheneum. Selected for inclusion in Harold Bloom's Western Canon. 1993: The Second Four Books of Poems, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press 1993: Travels: Poems, New York: Knopf – winner of the 1993 Lenore Marshall Poetry PrizeNews release, "Poet W.S. Merwin Reads at Library of Congress October 15, September 22, 1997, Library of Congress website, retrieved June 8, 2010 1996: The Vixen: Poems, New York: Knopf 1997: Flower and Hand: Poems, 1977–1983 Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press 1998: The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative, a "novel-in-verse" New York: Knopf"The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative (Hardcover)"; Amazon.com; 2010 1999: The River Sound: Poems, New York: Knopf 2001: The Pupil, New York: Knopf 2005: Migration: New and Selected Poems, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press – winner of the National Book Award for Poetry"National Book Awards – 2005". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-08. (With acceptance speech by Merwin, essay by Patrick Rosal from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog, and other material.) 2005: Present Company, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press 2005: Selected Poems, Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books 2008: The Shadow of Sirius, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon PressFarr, Sheila, "Poet ponders life's contrasts in 'The Shadow of Sirius'", book review, October 30, 2010, The Seattle Times, retrieved June 8, 2010 – winner of the Pulitzer Prize; 2009: Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books 2013: The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin, New York: Library of America 2014: The Moon Before Morning, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press; Hexham, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books 2016: Garden Time, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press; Hexham, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books 2017: The Essential W.S. Merwin, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press

List of poems TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedAlba2008The New Yorker 84/35 (November 3, 2008) The Blackboard2014The New Yorker 90/32 (October 20, 2014) Another Year Comes1960The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)The Asians Dying 1966The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)Burning Mountain1958Forgetting clouds2014The New Yorker (April 21, 2014)The Herds1966The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)Lemuels Blessing1962The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)The Old Room1969The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)Peril1974Peasant1967The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)Plea for a Captive1960The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)The Portland (Going Out)1957The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)Resolution 1964The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)Shadow Questions2016Garden Time (2016)Telephone ringing in the labyrinth2012The New York Review of Books 59/9 (May 24, 2012) The Way to the River1962The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)The Widow1966The New Yorker Book of Poems (1974)

Prose 1970: The Miner's Pale Children, New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 1994, New York: Holt) 1977: Houses and Travellers, New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 1994, New York: Holt) 1982: Unframed Originals: Recollections 1982: Regions of memory : uncollected prose, 1949-82 1992: The Lost Uplands: Stories of Southwest France, New York: Knopf 2002: The Mays of Ventadorn, National Geographic Directions Series; Washington: National Geographic 2004: The Ends of the Earth, essays, Washington: Shoemaker & Hoard 2005: Summer Doorways: A Memoir 2007: The Book of Fables, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press

Plays 1956: Darkling Child (with Dido Milroy), produced this year 1957: Favor Island, produced this year at Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts (broadcast in 1958 by Third Programme, British Broadcasting Corporation) 1961: The Gilded West, produced this year at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, England

Translations 1959: The Poem of the Cid, London: Dent (American edition, 1962, New York: New American Library) 1960: The Satires of Persius, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press 1961: Some Spanish Ballads, London: Abelard (American edition: Spanish Ballads, 1961, New York: Doubleday Anchor) 1962: The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: His Fortunes and Adversities, a Spanish novella; New York: Doubleday Anchor 1963: The Song of Roland 1969: Selected Translations, 1948–1968, New York: Atheneum – winner of the PEN Translation Prize 1969: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, poems by Pablo Neruda; London: Jonathan Cape (reprinted in 2004 with an introduction by Christina Garcia, New York: Penguin Books) 1969: Products of the Perfected Civilization, Selected Writings of Chamfort, also author of the introduction; New York: Macmillan 1969: Voices: Selected Writings of Antonio Porchia, Chicago: Follett (reprinted in 1988 and 2003, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press) 1969: Transparence of the World, poems by Jean Follain, New York: Atheneum (reprinted in 2003, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press) 1971: "Eight Quechua Poems", The Hudson ReviewComplete Index at Hudson Review Accessed October 23, 2010 1973: Asian Figures, New York: Atheneum 1974: Osip Mandelstam: Selected Poems (with Clarence Brown), New York: Oxford University Press (reprinted in 2004 as The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, New York: New York Review of Books) 1977: Sanskrit Love Poetry (with J. Moussaieff Masson), New York: Columbia University Press (published in 1981 as Peacock's Egg: Love Poems from Ancient India, San Francisco: North Point Press) 1977: Vertical Poetry, poems by Roberto Juarroz; San Francisco: Kayak (reprinted in 1988; San Francisco: North Point Press) 1978: Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis (with George E. Dimock, Jr.), New York: Oxford University Press 1979: Selected Translations, 1968–1978, New York: Atheneum 1981: Robert the Devil, an anonymous French play; with an introduction by the translator; Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover 1985: Four French Plays, including Robert the Devil; The Rival of His Master and Turcaret by Alain-René Lesage; and The False Confessions by Pierre de Marivaux; New York: Atheneum 1985: From the Spanish Morning, consisting of Spanash Ballads by Lope de Rueda and Eufemia: The Life of Lazarillo de Torres (originally translated in Tulane Drama Review, December 1958); New York: Atheneum 1989: Sun at Midnight, poems by Musō Soseki (with Soiku Shigematsu) 1996: Pieces of Shadow: Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines 1998: East Window: The Asian Translations, translated poems from earlier collections, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press 2000: Purgatorio from The Divine Comedy of Dante; New York: Knopf 2002: Gawain and the Green Knight, a New Verse Translation, New York: Knopf; 2003: Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books 2013: Selected Translations, translated poems from 1948–2010, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press 2013: Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press (with Takako Lento) 2013: Sun At Midnight, poems by Muso Soseki, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press (with Soiku Shigematsu) (updated and reissued) 2018: Purgatorio: A New Translation, from The Divine Comedy of Dante, Copper Canyon Press

Editor 1961: West Wind: Supplement of American Poetry, London: Poetry Book Society 1996: Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology (compiler), Washington: Counterpoint

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