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"Among the Cottagers at Southampton," an article including a photo of and caption on "Master Jimmie Merrill." Merrill most often pictured Southampton and "the Orchard" when he thought of "home."

Shirley Baker, Helen Vendler, and James Merrill at "James Merrill: A Life in Writing" symposium at Washington University, Nov. 18-19, 1994. Vendler is an esteemed professor and poetry critic who had been championing Merrill's work at least since…

Maya Deren in a still from her film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). A Ukrainian immigrant, scholar of French Symbolism, progressive activist, avant-garde filmmaker and dancer, "Deren introduced Merrill to spirit possession not as a metaphor, but as a…

James Merrill as a boy on a slide. "As a child, Jimmy was always attended by someone...So it's striking that, as an adult, he remembered his childhood as painfully lonely...the loneliness of a young mind engaged with private thoughts of mortality,…

James Merrill as a baby with his parents, Charles and Hellen. After three weeks in the hospital, Hellen recorded James's weight weekly, through December.

Short clip from "The Image Maker," a play by James Merrill. Merrill's theatrical production was performed by both live actors and marionette puppets. In this pivotal monologue, one of the play's puppets, Miguel, challenges his creator, The Image…

James Merrill reads "The Blue Grotto" from The Sunken Garden in 1993.

James Merrill reads his sonnet sequence "The Broken Home" in Brown Hall at Washington University, 1968.

James Merrill reads "In Monument Valley" in the Women's Building at Washington University in St. Louis, 1971.

James Merrill reads "Ideas" on the audio program A MOVEABLE FEAST, hosted by Tom Vitale, c1991.