"Mirror"
Item
Merrill, James, “"Mirror"”, Circa summer 1956, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/38415
- Title
-
"Mirror"
- 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."
- Subject
- Merrill, James, 1926-1995
- Creator
- Merrill, James
- Source
- James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 134, Folder 3368
- Date
- Circa summer 1956
- Relation
- Series_IV_Manuscripts
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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
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Site pages
- Water Street - Manuscripts
- Media
Merrill_Mirror_001.jpg
Merrill, James, “"Mirror"”, Circa summer 1956, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/38415