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Bio

(1919-2007) Poet. William Meredith was born in New York City. He was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980.

Full Name

William Morris Meredith Jr

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1919

BIRTH

William Morris Meredith, Jr. was born in New York City on January 9, 1919.

1944

LITWORK

Love Letter From an Impossible Land
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press

Collection of poetry.

1948

LITWORK

Ships and Other Figures
Princeton University Press

Collection of poetry.

1958

LITWORK

The Open Sea and Other Poems
Alfred A. Knopf

Collection of poetry.

1964

LITWORK

The Wreck of the Thresher and Other Poems
Alfred A. Knopf

Collection of poetry.

1970

LITWORK

Earth Walk: New and Selected Poems
Knopf

Collection of poetry.

1975

LITWORK

Hazard, the Painter
Alfred A. Knopf
0394496345 / 978-0394496344
Collection of poetry.

1980

LITWORK

The Cheer
Knopf
039451341X / 978-0394513416
Collection of poetry.

1982

LITWORK

Reasons for Poetry, and The Reason for Criticism
Library of Congress
0844403903 / 978-0844403908
Collection of essays.

1988

LITWORK

Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
Knopf
0394559932 / 978-0394559933
Collection of poetry, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

1997

LITWORK

Effort at Speech: New And Selected Poems
Triquarterly
0810150700 / 978-0810150706
Collection of poetry, winner of the National Book Award.

2007

DEATH

William Meredith died in New London, Connecticut, on May 30, 2007.

2007

INTERMENT

William Meredith Jr. was interred in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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