James Merrill letter to Hellen Ingram Merrill

James Merrill letter to Hellen Ingram Merrill

Merrill, James, 1926-1995

James Merrill letter to Hellen Ingram Merrill with a poem draft inspired by Hans Lodeizen, shortly after his death. This later turned into "The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace," a pastoral elegy that imagined a world "under the world."

Merrill, James

James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 80, Folder 2055

1950: August 5

Series_I_Correspondence

Exhibit Cases 1-2: Love & Money

James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 126-8

See also Hans Lodeizen silhouette and letter, Merrill's September 2, 1955 letter to Plummer, Journal 47 and Plummer's November 26, 1972 letter to Merrill

1 leaf. Recto and verso

2 jpegs. 600 ppi

English

Correspondence

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Washington University in St. Louis