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"Mirror"

Dublin Core

Title

"Mirror"

Subject

Merrill, James, 1926-1995

Description

"Mirror" was published in The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace. Included here is one typescript among 11 total pages with holograph notes and alternative titles. It was inspired by the Ephraim séances and is commonly held to be Merrill's "strongest, most original poem in the 1950s."

Creator

Merrill, James

Source

James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 134, Folder 3368

Date

Circa summer 1956

Rights

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

Relation

Series_IV_Manuscripts

Exhibit Cases 3-4: Water Street

James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 231-4

Format

1 leaf. Recto.

1 jpeg. 600 dpi.

Language

English

Type

Manuscript

Identifier

Merrill_Mirror_001.jpg

Rights Holder

Washington University in St. Louis

Citation

Merrill, James, “"Mirror" ,” WUSTL Digital Gateway Image Collections & Exhibitions, accessed May 3, 2024, http://lib-lslv126.wulib.wustl.edu/omeka/items/show/12652.