Saturday 5 April 2014

Stuart Merrill

Stuart Merrill, a New York born American poet who wrote mostly in French died in this house in 1915...

Stuart Merrill, né à New York, poète américain qui écrivit surtout en français, est décédé dans cette maison en 1915...







16 comments:

Revrunner said...

Nice digs for a poet.

Sylvia K said...

It is nice digs indeed -- maybe for any of us!!

RedPat said...

That is a fine looking house!

Randy said...

Nice looking house.

William Kendall said...

It looks like a lovely house.

Sharon said...

Such a pretty house. Looks like a great place to write.

La sonrisa de Hiperion said...

Estupendas las cositas que nos dejas.

Saludos.

Kate said...

Since this is National Poetry month, I went to your link to read some of his poems. Here is a sample of one verse of "Solitude"—nice


Dead kings are said to have trodden this path
Leading to the stone bench where we like to sit,
While over the solitude falls the peace of evening
And our hearts, like psalm-books, are full of mute songs.

Read more at http://www.blackcatpoems.com/m/solitude.html#Qgj3IzsSSH3q6YXe.99

GreensboroDailyPhoto said...

Wonder what the French thought of his poetry. Thanks for the literary history!

EG CameraGirl said...

Amazing that he was born in the US but wrote poetry in French!

Lowell said...

He must have gotten tired of New York. The name is vaguely familiar but I don't recall reading his work. I do like the house!

Re your question: Of course you can "meditate" with an iPad. You just close your eyes, the iPad drops to the floor, and you wake up an hour later with a cat sitting on it! :)

Birdman said...

Happy Poetry Month to him and you.

PerthDailyPhoto said...

He was lucky to live.. and die, in such a residence Ciel. Will look up his work.

VP said...

I confess my ignorance: I have never hear of this poet... Thanks for writing about him!

Halcyon said...

I have personally never heard of him. But I am going to check wikipedia toute de suite!

Stuart said...

Well for someone who is my namesake I should have known about him. But there goes my engineering education again.