James Merrill
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James Merrill, a South Carolina politician, was born in 1926, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet.
In 1977, he was given the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his work "Divine Comedies."
His poetry consists of two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his youth and the epic story of occult communication with spirits and angels, which dominated his later career.
Although the bulk of his published work was poetry, he also wrote essays, fiction, and plays.
Early life
James Ingram Merrill was born in New York City to Charles E. Merrill (1885–1956), the founding partner of the Merrill Lynch investment firm, and Hellen Ingram Merrill (1898–2000), a society reporter and publisher from Jacksonville, Florida. He was born at a house that would become the scene of the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, which Merrill would mourn in the poem "18 West 11th Street" (1972).
Merrill's parents married in 1925, the year before he was born; he'd grow up with two older half siblings from his father's first marriage, Doris Merrill Magowan and Charles E. Merrill, Jr. For example, Robert White's 30-acre estate in Southampton, New York, dubbed "The Orchard," had been designed by Stanford White with landscaping by Frederick Law Olmsted. (The property was built in 1980 with 29 luxury condominiums flanking the central gardens, but the home's vast ballroom and first-floor public reception areas were preserved.) Merrill's childhood tutors taught him French and German, an experience Merrill discussed in his 1974 poem Lost in Translation. Merrill attended St. Bernard's, a prestigious New York grammar school, from 1936 to 1938.
"I found it difficult to believe in the way my parents lived." Merrill would tell an interviewer in 1982 that they seemed so completely taken up with commitments, obligations, and weddings. "The excitement, the mental boost I felt in those years came mainly from animals or nature, or by the servants in the household." The gardeners had their hands in the earth. When making pies, the cook was dredging things with flour. My father was simply earning money, while my mother wrote names on place-cards, planned menus, and did her needlepoint." Merrill's parents divorced when he was eleven years old and then divorced when he was thirteen years old. Merrill began writing poetry as a teenager and embarked on early literary collaborations. Merrill's father collected his short stories and poems and published them as a surprise under the name Jim's Book. Merrill was initially delighted, but later found the precocious book to be an embarrassment. It is now regarded as a literary treasure valuing thousands of dollars.