James Merrill reads "The Broken Home"

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Merrill, James. “James Merrill Reads ‘The Broken Home’”. Https://youtu.Be/JYF5K0cNq38. Washington University in St. Louis, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/39758

Title: James Merrill reads "The Broken Home"
Description: James Merrill reads his sonnet sequence "The Broken Home" in Brown Hall at Washington University. Inspiration for this sequence came, in part, from his experience with his parents' divorce.

See also "Looking at Mummy" manuscript page and Journal 59.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Date: Recorded 1968; Published online 2015: August 19
Language: English
Publisher: Washington University in St. Louis; Modern Literature Collection
Type: Poetry
Identifier: MP3_0180.01_Merrill_Clip_The_Broken_Home
Rights Holder: Washington University in St. Louis
Relation: https://youtu.be/JYF5K0cNq38; Photographs: MSS083_VI-1-a_288; MSS083_VI-1-a_305; MSS083_VI-1-a_315; MSS083_VI-1-a_319; MSS083_VI-1-a_334; MSS083_VI-1-a_335; MSS083_VI-1-a_349; MSS083_VI-1-a_354; MSS083_VI-1-a_356; MSS083_VI-1-a_393; MSS083_VI-1-a_406; MSS083_VI-1-a_435; MSS083_VI-1-a_823; MSS083_VI-1-a_903; MSS083_VI-1-a_291; MSS083_VI-1-a_338; MSS083_VI-1-a_873; MSS083_VI-1-a_915; MSS083_VI-1-a_366; MSS083_VI-1-a_336; MSS083_VI-1-a_882; MSS083_VI-1-a_654; MSS083_VI-1-a_901
Format: sound tape reel : analog, 3 3/4 ips; 7 in.; sound cassette : analog [copy]; 5" Polycarbonate CD-R Disk : digital [copy] recorded at 44.1kHz; MP3 64 kbps
Extent: 00:07:11
Source: Modern Literature Recorded Multimedia Collection (MSS124), Item 180
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Item sets: Merrill; Merrill Life Archive