Stuart Merrill

Poet

Stuart Merrill was born in Hempstead, New York, United States on August 1st, 1863 and is the Poet. At the age of 52, Stuart Merrill biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
August 1, 1863
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Hempstead, New York, United States
Death Date
Dec 1, 1915 (age 52)
Zodiac Sign
Leo
Profession
Poet, Translator
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Stuart Merrill Life

Stuart Fitzrandolph Merrill (August 1, 1863 in Hempstead, New York) was an American poet who wrote mainly in French.

He attended the Symbolist Academy.

Les Gammes (1887), Les Fastes (1891), and Petits Poèmes d'Automne (1895), his three principal books of poetry.

Life

Merrill was the product of a conservative, wealthy, Protestant upbringing. George, his father, was given a diplomatic appointment to Paris in 1866, where Merrill would learn French and live for the next 19 years. Stéphane Mallarmé was one of Merrill's school teachers. René Ghil and Pierre Quillard, among other futurists, were among his classmates. Le fou, Merrill's weekly newspaper, before returning to the United States in 1884 to attend law school. Merrill travelled to Madison Square Theater in New York on April 15, 1887, to hear Walt Whitman speak at his famous "Death of Abraham Lincoln" address. Merrill had the privilege to meet Whitman later that year, an event that he later reported in the magazine "Le Masque."

Merrill's first book of poems, Les gammes, was published in Paris in 1887 and received a large critical audience in Europe. He took part in radical political movements, identifying with the anarchists in the famous Haymarket riots as his literary career flourished. Merrill, a writer and scholar who was arrested for homosexuality, began to circulate a petition in London urging Oscar Wilde's release, as well as a petition in the United States. Although Merrill's father disinherited him for his career in politics, his mother would continue to assist him financially throughout his life.

Merrill's Pastels in Prose, a series of his translations of French prose poems, appeared in 1890. This was his first book to be published in America during his lifetime. He returned to Europe permanently in 1891, and he married in 1891. His address was 53 Quai de Bourbon, Île Saint-Louis, Paris, 1893-1908. Several other books, including Les fastes in 1891 and Petits poèmes d'automne in 1895, were not published before his death of heart disease in 1915. Place Stuart-Merrill, a small traffic way in Paris's 17th arrondissement, was named in 1927 by a small traffic street.

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