Love and Death - Manuscripts
- Title
- An Evening at Sandover Draft
- Description
- Fifteen pages (out of sixty total) of a corrected typescript draft of An Evening at Sandover, Merrill's first stage adaptation of the Ouija board epic, performed as part of the revived Poets' Theatre at Hasty Pudding theater at Harvard. Peter Hooten worked with Merrill on both a stage and video adaptation, to very mixed results.
- Subject
- Merrill, James, 1926-1995
- Creator
- Merrill, James
- Source
- James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 144, Folder 3796
- Date
- 1988: February 6
- Relation
- Series_IV_Manuscripts
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Exhibit Cases 9-10: Love and Death
- James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 725
- Format
- 15 leaves. Recto.
- 15 jpegs. 600 ppi.
- Language
- English
- Type
- Manuscript
- Identifier
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An_Evening_at_Sandover_Feb_6_1988-015.jpg - Rights Holder
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Media
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- Title
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"Self-Portrait in a Tyvek Windbreaker"
- Description
- Holograph and typescript fragments toward and three full drafts of "Self-Portrait in a Tyvek Windbreaker." A play on John Ashbery's "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror," and published in A Scattering of Salts, it is one of the longest poems of Merrill's later years and one of the strongest from any phase of his career. "...it is concerned not with personal memory, but with the present and the future of our culture."
- Subject
- Merrill, James, 1926-1995
- Creator
- Merrill, James
- Source
- James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 138, Folder 3537
- Date
- 1991: August 23
- Relation
- Series_IV_Manuscripts
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Exhibit Cases 9-10: Love and Death
- James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 749-51
- Format
- 8 leaves. Recto and verso.
- 16 jpegs. 600 dpi.
- Language
- English
- Type
- Manuscript
- Rights Holder
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Identifier
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- Media
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- Title
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"Elizabeth, you should have"
- Description
- A three-page draft of an unfinished, untitled poem from winter 1992 addressing Elizabeth Bishop. It is an "uncharacteristically awkward" but powerful poem about "raw life" prevailing over "graceful art."
- Subject
- Merrill, James, 1926-1995
- Creator
- Merrill, James
- Source
- James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 130, Folder 3147
- Relation
- Series_IV_Manuscripts
-
Exhibit Cases 9-10: Love and Death
- James Merrill Life and Art, pp. 759-60
- See also See also Merrill reading "The Victor Dog" (dedicated to Bishop) and Bishop's "One Art" and October 8 & 10, 1979 Séances
- Format
- 3 leaves. Recto.
- 3 jpegs. 600 dpi.
- Language
- English
- Type
- Manuscript
- Date
- Circa winter 1992
- Rights Holder
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Identifier
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- Title
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"Tony: Ending the Life"
- Description
- "Tony: Ending the Life," published in A Scattering of Salts, is an "expansive elegy for his friend" (Tony Parigory, who died in summer 1993 of AIDS), "and (it is all but explicit) himself." Merrill had been largely silent about his AIDS diagnosis but it came out in his poetry. Included here are three of a total 61 manuscript pages.
- Subject
- Merrill, James, 1926-1995
- Creator
- Merrill, James
- Source
- James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 139, Folder 3621
- Date
- 1993: November
- Relation
- Series_IV_Manuscripts
-
Exhibit Cases 9-10: Love and Death
- James Merrill: Life and Art, pp. 773-4
- See also November 27, 1973 letter from Merrill to Parigory, photograph of Merrill and Parigory, and For James Merrill: A Birthday Tribute.
- Format
- 3 leaves. Recto and verso.
- 3 jpegs. 600 ppi.
- Language
- English
- Type
- Manuscript
- Rights Holder
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Identifier
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- Title
- "Days of 1994"
- Description
- Various drafts of "Days of 1994," the fifth in James Merrill's "Days of" series, completing his homage to Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy. "Days of 1994" revolves around approaching death and what he will leave behind. Included here are five of a total 22 different versions.
- Subject
- Merrill, James, 1926-1995
- Creator
- Merrill, James
- Source
- James Merrill Papers (MSS083) - Box 129, Folder 3102
- Relation
- Series_IV_Manuscripts
- Exhibit cases 9-10: Love and Death
- James Merrill: Life and Art, p. 780
- Format
- 5 leaves, recto
- 5 jpegs. 600 ppi
- Language
- English
- Type
- Manuscript
- Identifier
-
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MSS083-IV-1-a-Days-of-1994-018.jpg - Rights Holder
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Date
- circa 1995
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
