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James Merrill reads his poem "The Blue Grotto" at the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival at the Hill-Stead Museum.

James Merrill reads his sonnet sequence "The Broken Home" in Brown Hall at Washington University. Inspiration for this sequence came, in part, from his experience with his parents' divorce.

See also "Looking at Mummy" manuscript page and Journal…

James Merrill reads "The Pruned Tree" by Howard Moss (poetry editor of the New Yorker and friend of Merrill's) and "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop at the first James Merrill Symposium.

James Merrill reads his six-part poem "The Ring Cycle" at the first James Merrill Symposium.

James Merrill reads his poem "The Victor Dog" at Behrend College.

James Merrill reads from his piece "The Changing Light at Sandover," a poem based on his and David Jackson's experiences with their Ouija board seances, at the first James Merrill Symposium. He is accompanied here by Peter Hooten voicing the…

Photograph of James Merrill receiving an honorary doctorate at Amherst College from Calvin H. Plimpton, June 7, 1968.

Photograph of James Merrill receiving an honorary doctorate at Amherst College from Calvin H. Plimpton, June 7, 1968.

James Merrill with Postcard Portrait of Marcel Proust (lower left). Photographer: Thomas Victor, Time Pix (1980).

Of James Merrill’s abilities as a playwright, opinions range from the acclaim of Tennessee Williams, who hailed The Bait as a masterpiece, to the almost unanimous contempt of New York theatre critics, who branded The Immortal Husband with…