"Violent Pastoral" broadside printed by Laurence Scott

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Merrill, James. 1965. “‘Violent Pastoral’ Broadside Printed by Laurence Scott”. Rare Books Catalogued Items. [Cambridge, Mass.] : Adams House & Lowell House Printers, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/38726

Title: "Violent Pastoral" broadside printed by Laurence Scott
Description: "Violent Pastoral," here in a broadside printed by Laurence Scott, is a poem "set in a Greece of the mind." It's unclear whether Strato Mouflouzelis is the eagle and James Merrill the lamb, or vice versa.

See also photograph of Strato Mouflouzelis, James Merrill's November 17, 1964 letter to Daryl Hine, and "Days of 1964" manuscript pages.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: Catalogued item: PS3525.E6645 V5 1965 4o
Date: Circa 1965
Relation: Rare Books Catalogued Items; Exhibit Cases 5-6: Greece; James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 377
Language: English
Type: Poetry
Publisher: [Cambridge, Mass.] : Adams House & Lowell House Printers
Format: 1 leaf. Recto and verso.; 4 jpegs. 600 ppi.
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Item sets: Merrill; Merrill Life Archive

Site pages: Greece - Publications

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