W.S. Merwin, who just finished serving out his Poet Laureateship, was born in NYC. But Scarriet put him in the South bracket because Merwin is associated with Robert Graves (early Fugitive) and with Princeton—where Southern Fugitive and Agrarian, Allen Tate, started one of the nation’s first Poetry workshop there in the early 40s. The New Critics—who sprang directly from the [...]![]()
