The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace

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Merrill, James. 1970. “The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace”. Exhibit Cases 3-4: Water Street. [New York]: Alfred A Knopf, James Merrill: Life and Archive, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/james-merrill-life-and-archive/item/39818

Title: The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace
Description: The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, first published in 1959, contains poems written over an eight-year period, which "are a collection of symbols and epiphanies drawn from experience but set off from it in an ideal, timeless space, a Switzerland of the imagination." Here we include three book covers as well as collected clippings laid into the inscribed first edition copy donated to Washington University by James Merrill's mother, Hellen Plummer.
Subject: Merrill, James, 1926-1995
Creator: Merrill, James
Source: Catalogued item, PS3525 E6645 C6 1959
Publisher: [New York]: Alfred A Knopf
Date: 1959, 1970
Relation: Exhibit cases 3-4: Water Street; James Merrill, Life and Art, p. 251
Format: Book; 14 jpegs. 600 ppi
Language: English
Type: Book, Clippings
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Merrill_Country_Thousand_Years_Peace_c.2_1970_back.jpg; PS3525 E6645 C6 1959
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Item sets: Merrill; Merrill Life Archive

Site pages: Water Street - Publications

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