Are James Merrill and James Joyce both American poets?
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James Merrill
James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet.
 He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1977) for "Divine Comedies" (1976).
 His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his early career, and the epic narrative of occult communication with spirits and angels, titled "The Changing Light at Sandover" (published in three volumes from 1976 to 1980), which dominated his later career.
 Although most of his published work was poetry, he also wrote essays, fiction, and plays.
 He also made a cameo in the 1992 film "Lorenzo's Oil" in a symposium scene where he played a questioning doctor, due to filmmakers wanting to emphasize the "everyman" storyline.
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, and poet.
 He contributed to the modernist avant-garde and is regarded as one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century.
 Joyce is best known for "Ulysses" (1922), a landmark work in which the episodes of Homer's "Odyssey" are paralleled in a variety of literary styles, perhaps most prominently stream of consciousness.
 Other well-known works are the short-story collection "Dubliners" (1914), and the novels "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916) and "Finnegans Wake" (1939).
 His other writings include three books of poetry, a play, his published letters and occasional journalism.
Stephen James Joyce
Stephen James Joyce (born 15 February 1932) is the grandson of James Joyce and the controversial executor of Joyce's estate.
 He was born in France, the son of James Joyce's son, Giorgio, and Helen Joyce, née Kastor.
 Stephen attended Harvard University, graduating in 1958.
 At Harvard, he once roomed with Paul Matisse, grandson of French impressionist painter Henri Matisse, and with Sadruddin Aga Khan.
 Thereafter, he worked for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on African development.
 He retired from the OECD in 1991 to focus on managing his grandfather's estate.
 He and his wife, Solange Raythchine Joyce, live in the Île de Ré in France.
 They have no children; Stephen is James Joyce's sole living descendant. James Joyce's Women
James Joyce's Women, filmed in 1983, is a 1985 British/Irish period drama film produced by and starring Fionnula Flanagan as writer James Joyce's wife Nora and some of the real women in Joyce's life and fictional women from the writer's novels.
 The film is based on Fionnula Flanagan's 1977 play "James Joyce's Women". The Poetry Collection
A University at Buffalo Libraries Special Collection, The Poetry Collection at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, is devoted to 20th century poetry in English and English translation.
 Founded by Charles David Abbott, the University at Buffalo's first Director of Libraries, The Poetry Collection contains over 100,000 volumes by every major and many minor poet writing in English.
 Recordings of poets reading from their own works, poets' notebooks, letters and manuscripts, and a wide variety of literary magazines are also included in this collection.
 Approximately 5,000 little magazine titles, 1,200 current subscriptions, and a number of portraits, sculptures, and photographs round out the collection.
 Also included in the Poetry Collection is the James Joyce Archive, the world's largest collection of James Joyce manuscripts, books and artifacts. Bernard Benstock
Bernard Benstock (1930 – July 14, 1994) was a literary critic and a professor of English at the University of Miami.
 He was an authority on British mystery writers, and Irish writers Seán O'Casey and James Joyce.
 He was editor of the "James Joyce Literary Supplement" and a co-founder of the International James Joyce Foundation, of which he was president for eight years.
 He died on July 14, 1994 at the age of 64, in Egremont, Massachusetts. James Merrill House
The James Merrill House is a 19th-century house at 107 Water Street in Stonington Borough in southeastern Connecticut, formerly owned by poet James Merrill.
 Upon his death in 1995, the house was kept by the village as a home for writers and scholars. Stephen Yenser
Stephen Yenser (born 1941 Wichita, Kansas) is an American poet and literary critic who has published two acclaimed volumes of verse, as well as books on James Merrill, Robert Lowell, and an assortment of contemporary poets.
 With J.D. McClatchy, he is co-literary executor of the James Merrill estate and co-editor of four volumes of Merrill's work. James Joyce Award
The James Joyce Award, also known as the Honorary Fellowship of the Society, is an award given by the Literary and Historical Society (L&H) of University College Dublin (UCD) for those who have achieved outstanding success in their given field; recipients have ranged from respected academics, lauded political figures, skilled actors and, like James Joyce himself, writers.
 It is the highest award that an Irish University society can give.
 It is named after one of the society's most distinguished alumni, James Joyce, the author of "Dubliners", "Ulysses", "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "Finnegans Wake". Gilbert schema for Ulysses
This schema for the novel "Ulysses" was produced by its author, James Joyce, in 1921 to help his friend, Stuart Gilbert, understand the fundamental structure of the book.
 Gilbert published it in 1930 in his book, "James Joyce's "Ulysses": A Study".
 The original copy of the Gilbert schema is housed in the Harley K. Croessmann Collection of James Joyce at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.