A James Merrill Bibliography

Poetry

Collected Poems (2001)
First Poems (1951)
The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace (1959)
     Revised edition (1970)
Water Street (1962)
Nights and Days (1966)
The Fire Screen (1969)
Braving the Elements (1972)
Divine Comedies (1976)
Mirabell: Books of Number (1978)
Scripts for the Pageant (1980)
The Changing Light at Sandover (1982)
From the First Nine: Poems 1946-1976 (1982)
Late Settings (1985)
The Inner Room (1988)
Selected Poems 1946-1985 (1992)
A Scattering of Salts (1995)

Fiction

The Seraglio (1957, 1987)
The (Diblos) Notebook (1965)

Essays

Recitative (1986)
A Different Person (1993), a memoir

Theatre

The Immortal Husband (1955)
The Bait (1960)

Audiobooks

The Voice of the Poet: Merrill,
edited by J. D. McClatchy and read by the Author

A Selection of Books on Merrill and Merrill's Work

James Merrill, R. Labrie (1982)
James Merrill: An Introduction, J. Moffett (1984)
Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry: O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill, M. Blasing (1995)
Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson, A. Lurie (2001)