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Merwin, W S

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Merwin, W(illiam) S(tanley) (1927– )

US poet. He is known for his plays, prose parables, and translations as well as for his surrealistic poetry, as in Opening the Hand (1983).

Merwin was born in New York City. He studied at Princeton University, gaining his BA in 1947. He then tutored Robert Graves's son in Majorca, Spain, in 1950, and was subsequently based in England, France, and Hawaii. In 1998 he was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
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