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Show Poet, translator to read from his works tonight, 8 p.m. W.S. Merwin, poet and translator, transla-tor, will read his poetry Monday in Mark Green Hall, at 8 p.m. W.S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1929 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey and in The P.E.N. Club awarded Merwin Mer-win its translation prize in 1969 for his "Selected Translation," 1948-1968. Mr. Merwin has published pub-lished six collections of original poetry and nine books of translations. Scranton, Pennsylvania. Once the tutor to the children of Princess de Braganza in Portugal and to the household of Robert Graves in Majorca, Merwin has traveled and lived abroad during much of his adult life. He has devoted the majority of his time, however, to the writing and translating of poetry. Technical brilliance Since the publication of his first collection of poetry, "A Mask for Janus," in 1952, and his first translation, "The Poems of the Cid," in 1959, he has commanded com-manded the critical attention and acclaim of the literary world which has watched with interest his development into a major poet and translator. "That Merwin is one of the more gifted poets to appear in this country since the war goes without with-out saying. His earliest books I demonstrated a technical brilliance, bril-liance, precision and virtuousity hard to match," wrote Ralph J. Mill in "Modern Age." |
