W.S. Merwin papers (Merwin 1) | Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

W. S. (William Stanley) Merwin was a Pulitzer Prize winning poet, translator, and environmental activist. His papers consists of books, notes, manuscripts, correspondence, ideas for poems, published and unpublished works, translations of other author's works, critical writings by Merwin, and select writings about Merwin.

This library holds nine major accruals of Merwin's papers: Merwin 1, Merwin 2, Merwin 3, Merwin 4, Merwin 5, Merwin 6, Merwin 7, Merwin 8, and Merwin 10. Merwin 10 represents additional accessions not obtained from William or Paula Merwin.