William Morris Meredith, Jr.
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William Morris Meredith, Jr. (born January 9, 1919 in New York City) is an American poet. He graduated from with an AB from Princeton University in 1940. He has held professorships at Princeton University, University of Hawaii, and Connecticut College.
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[edit] Books
[edit] Poetry
- Love Letter from an Impossible Land (1944)
- Ships and Other Figures (1948)
- The Open Sea and Other Poems (1957)
- The Wreck of the Thresher and Other Poems (1964)
- Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems (1987)
- Effort at Speech: New and Selected Poems (1997)
[edit] Other
Also wrote Accidents of Birth
[edit] Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1988 for Partial Accounts
- National Book Award for Poetry 1997 for Effort at Speech
- Guggenheim Fellowship 1975
[edit] External links
- [1]Biographical sketch at Academy of American Poets Web site
- Meredith, William at the Notable Names Database
- [2] "PURPLE PATCH: Reasons for poetry", essay by Meredith
