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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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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)
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Other
Reasons for Poetry, and The Reason for Criticism (1982)
Poems Are Hard to Read (1991)
Also wrote "Accidents of Birth"
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Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1988 for Partial Accounts
National Book Award for Poetry 1997 for Effort at Speech
Guggenheim Fellowship 1975
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