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Journal 59 - "The Broken Home" drafts

Dublin Core

Title

Subject

Merrill, James, 1926-1995

Description

Journal 59 includes numerous pages of early holograph notes and drafts toward "The Broken Home," one of which is included here. Merrill's most autobiographical poem to date, "The Broken Home" centered on his parents' troubled relationship. It was eventually published in The New Yorker and then in Nights and Days.

Creator

Merrill, James

Source

James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 117, Folder 2907

Date

1964 : March 18

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Relation

Series_II_Journals

Exhibit Cases 1-2: Love and Money

James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 360-3

See also James Merrill's Poetry Manuscripts pages on "The Broken Home"

Format

1 leaf. Recto.

1 jpeg. 600 ppi.

Language

English

Type

Manuscript

Identifier

JNL59_pg92.jpg

Rights Holder

Washington University in St. Louis

Citation

Merrill, James, “Journal 59 - "The Broken Home" drafts ,” WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions, accessed April 30, 2024, http://lib-lslv126.wulib.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/12633.