 In tribute to Merrill, "The New Yorker" republished his 1962 poem, "The Mad Scene", in its March 19, 1995 edition.Beginning with the prestigious Glascock Prize, awarded for "The Black Swan" when he was an undergraduate, Merrill would go on to receive every major poetry award in the United States, including the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for "Divine Comedies".Merrill was honored in mid-career with the Bollingen Prize in 1973.