W. S. Merwin bibliography
A list of works by or about William Stanley Merwin. Merwin was an American poet, credited with over fifty books of poetry, translation and prose.
Poetry
;Collections- 1952: A Mask for Janus, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press; awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize, 1952
- 1954: The Dancing Bears, New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press
- 1956: Green with Beasts, New York: Knopf
- 1960: The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Macmillan
- 1963: The Moving Target, New York: Atheneum
- 1966: Collected Poems, New York: Atheneum
- 1967: The Lice, New York: Atheneum;
- 1969: Animae, San Francisco: Kayak
- 1970: The Carrier of Ladders, New York: Atheneum – winner of the Pulitzer Prize
- 1970: Signs, illustrated by A. D. Moore; Iowa City, Iowa: Stone Wall Press
- 1973: Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment, New York: Atheneum
- 1975: The First Four Books of Poems, containing A Mask for Janus, The Dancing Bears, Green with Beasts, and The Drunk in the Furnace, New York: Atheneum;
- 1977: The Compass Flower, New York: Atheneum
- 1978: Feathers From the Hill, Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover
- 1982: Finding the Islands, San Francisco: North Point Press
- 1983: Opening the Hand, New York: Atheneum
- 1988: The Rain in the Trees, New York: Knopf
- 1988: Selected Poems, New York: Atheneum. Selected for inclusion in Harold Bloom's Western Canon.
- 1993: The Second Four Books of Poems, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
- 1993: Travels: Poems, New York: Knopf – winner of the 1993 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
- 1996: The Vixen: Poems, New York: Knopf
- 1997: Flower and Hand: Poems, 1977–1983 Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
- 1998: The Folding Cliffs: A Narrative, a "novel-in-verse" New York: Knopf
- 1999: The River Sound: Poems, New York: Knopf
- 2001: The Pupil, New York: Knopf
- 2005: Migration: New and Selected Poems, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press – winner of the National Book Award for Poetry
- 2005: Present Company, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
- 2005: Selected Poems, Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
- 2008: The Shadow of Sirius, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press – winner of the Pulitzer Prize; 2009: Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
- 2013: The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin, New York: Library of America
- 2014: The Moon Before Morning, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press; Hexham, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
- 2016: Garden Time, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press; Hexham, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
- 2017: The Essential W.S. Merwin, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
| 2008 | The New Yorker 84/35 | ||
| 2014 | The New Yorker 90/32 | ||
| Another Year Comes | 1960 | The New Yorker Book of Poems | |
| The Asians Dying | 1966 | The New Yorker Book of Poems | |
| Burning Mountain | 1958 | - | |
| Forgetting clouds | 2014 | The New Yorker | |
| The Herds | 1966 | The New Yorker Book of Poems | |
| Lemuels Blessing | 1962 | The New Yorker Book of Poems | |
| The Old Room | 1969 | The New Yorker Book of Poems | |
| Peril | 1974 | ||
| Peasant | 1967 | The New Yorker Book of Poems | |
| Plea for a Captive | 1960 | The New Yorker Book of Poems | |
| The Portland | 1957 | The New Yorker Book of Poems | |
| Resolution | 1964 | The New Yorker Book of Poems | |
| Shadow Questions | 2016 | Garden Time | - |
| Telephone ringing in the labyrinth | 2012 | The New York Review of Books 59/9 | |
| The Way to the River | 1962 | The New Yorker Book of Poems | |
| The Widow | 1966 | The New Yorker Book of Poems |
Prose
- 1970: The Miner's Pale Children, New York: Atheneum
- 1977: Houses and Travellers, New York: Atheneum
- 1982: Unframed Originals: Recollections
- 1982: Regions of memory : uncollected prose, 1949-82
- 1992: The Lost Uplands: Stories of Southwest France, New York: Knopf
- 2002: The Mays of Ventadorn, National Geographic Directions Series; Washington: National Geographic
- 2004: The Ends of the Earth, essays, Washington: Shoemaker & Hoard
- 2005: Summer Doorways: A Memoir
- 2007: The Book of Fables, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
Plays
- 1956: Darkling Child, produced this year
- 1957: Favor Island, produced this year at Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1961: The Gilded West, produced this year at Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, England
Translations
- 1959: The Poem of the Cid, London: Dent
- 1960: The Satires of Persius, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press
- 1961: Some Spanish Ballads, London: Abelard
- 1962: The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes: His Fortunes and Adversities, a Spanish novella; New York: Doubleday Anchor
- 1963: The Song of Roland
- 1969: Selected Translations, 1948–1968, New York: Atheneum – winner of the PEN Translation Prize
- 1969: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, poems by Pablo Neruda; London: Jonathan Cape
- 1969: Products of the Perfected Civilization, Selected Writings of Chamfort, also author of the introduction; New York: Macmillan
- 1969: Voices: Selected Writings of Antonio Porchia, Chicago: Follett
- 1969: Transparence of the World, poems by Jean Follain, New York: Atheneum
- 1971: "Eight Quechua Poems", The Hudson Review
- 1973: Asian Figures, New York: Atheneum
- 1974: Osip Mandelstam: Selected Poems, New York: Oxford University Press
- 1977: Sanskrit Love Poetry, New York: Columbia University Press
- 1977: Vertical Poetry, poems by Roberto Juarroz; San Francisco: Kayak
- 1978: Euripides' Iphigeneia at Aulis, New York: Oxford University Press
- 1979: Selected Translations, 1968–1978, New York: Atheneum
- 1981: Robert the Devil, an anonymous French play; with an introduction by the translator; Iowa City, Iowa: Windhover
- 1985: Four French Plays, including Robert the Devil; The Rival of His Master and Turcaret by Alain-René Lesage; and The False Confessions by Pierre de Marivaux; New York: Atheneum
- 1985: From the Spanish Morning, consisting of Spanash Ballads by Lope de Rueda and Eufemia: The Life of Lazarillo de Torres ; New York: Atheneum
- 1989: Sun at Midnight, poems by Musō Soseki
- 1996: Pieces of Shadow: Selected Poems of Jaime Sabines
- 1998: East Window: The Asian Translations, translated poems from earlier collections, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
- 2000: Purgatorio from The Divine Comedy of Dante; New York: Knopf
- 2002: Gawain and the Green Knight, a New Verse Translation, New York: Knopf; 2003: Tarset, Northumberland, UK: Bloodaxe Books
- 2013: Selected Translations, translated poems from 1948–2010, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
- 2013: Collected Haiku of Yosa Buson, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
- 2013: Sun At Midnight, poems by Muso Soseki, Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press
- 2018: Purgatorio: A New Translation, from The Divine Comedy of Dante, Copper Canyon Press
Editor
- 1961: West Wind: Supplement of American Poetry, London: Poetry Book Society
- 1996: Lament for the Makers: A Memorial Anthology, Washington: Counterpoint