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Clipping featuring William. H. Gass as Pagliaccio from the opera I Pagliacci.

Newspaper clippings related to Charles Merrill's and Hellen Ingram Merrill's divorce. The "broken home" had a profound effect on James Merrill remembering his childhood as a lonely one.

"Stretched on the Rack of the Midwest" review by George P. Elliott of In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H. Gass, The Nation, April 29, 1968.

The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, first published in 1959, contains poems written over an eight-year period, which "are a collection of symbols and epiphanies drawn from experience but set off from it in an ideal, timeless space, a…

Two clippings related to Gass's first novel, Omensetter's Luck:

"William Gass...A Man Who Says What He Thinks," Purdue People, University News Service, Purdue University, Number 13 (December 1967).

Newspaper clipping of "When a Poet Raises Spirits at Ouija Board" by Paul Anastasi from the International Herald Tribune, March 8, 1978.

Newspaper clipping of "Pulitzer Bullish on Merrill '47" by David Applefield from the Amherst Student.

Pop Culture, Phooey, Socrates Lives by Robert Sanford, St. Louis Post Dispatch, June 3, 1973.

"Philosopher-Critic Joining Washington U. Faculty," St. Louis Post-Dispatch