W. S. Merwin

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Statements (61)
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essayist
translator
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gptkbp:awardReceived gptkb:Bollingen_Prize
gptkb:Emmy_Award
gptkb:Lannan_Literary_Award_for_Poetry
gptkb:National_Book_Award_for_Poetry
gptkb:Ruth_Lilly_Poetry_Prize
gptkb:Chancellor_of_the_Academy_of_American_Poets
gptkb:Tanning_Prize
gptkbp:birthDate 1927-09-30
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:New_York_City
gptkbp:children none
gptkbp:deathDate 2019-03-15
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Haiku,_Hawaii
gptkbp:education gptkb:Princeton_University
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:William_Stanley_Merwin
gptkbp:genre gptkb:poetry
prose
translator
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label W. S. Merwin
gptkbp:influenced younger American poets
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Dante_Alighieri
gptkb:Ezra_Pound
gptkb:William_Carlos_Williams
gptkb:Robert_Graves
Spanish poetry
gptkbp:language English
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gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Migration:_New_and_Selected_Poems
gptkb:The_Carrier_of_Ladders
gptkb:The_Lice
gptkb:The_Shadow_of_Sirius
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:poet
essayist
translator
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Haiku,_Hawaii
gptkbp:servedAs gptkb:Emmy_Award
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Dido_Milroy
gptkb:Paula_Dunaway
gptkbp:subjectOf gptkb:Even_Though_the_Whole_World_Is_Burning_(documentary)
gptkbp:termEnd 2011
gptkbp:termStart 2010
gptkbp:theme gptkb:spirituality
gptkb:war
environmentalism
loss
memory
nature
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight
gptkb:Dante's_Purgatorio
gptkb:Poems_of_Pablo_Neruda
gptkb:Selected_Poems_of_Osip_Mandelstam
gptkb:The_Song_of_Roland
gptkbp:website https://www.merwinconservancy.org/
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