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Author : Langdon Hammer
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780375413339
"A biography of the acclaimed poet James Merrill"--
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781101875513
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The selected correspondence of the brilliant poet, one of the twentieth century's last great letter writers. "I don't keep a journal, not after the first week," James Merrill asserted in a letter while on a trip around the world. "Letters have got to bear all the burden." A vivacious correspondent, whether abroad, where avid curiosity and fond memory frequently took him, or at home, he wrote eagerly and often, to family and lifelong friends, American and Greek lovers, confidants in literature and art about everything that mattered—aesthetics, opera and painting, housekeeping and cooking, the comedy of social life, the mysteries of the Ouija board and the spirit world, and psychological and moral dilemmas—in funny, dashing, unrevised missives, composed to entertain himself as well as his recipients. On a personal nemesis: "the ambivalence I live with. It worries me less and less. It becomes the very stuff of my art"; on a lunch for Wallace Stevens given by Blanche Knopf: "It had been decided by one and all that nothing but small talk would be allowed"; on romance in his late fifties: "I must stop acting like an orphan gobbling cookies in fear of the plate's being taken away"; on great books: "they burn us like radium, with their decisiveness, their terrible understanding of what happens." Merrill's daily chronicle of love and loss is unfettered, self-critical, full of good gossip, and attuned to the wicked irony, the poignant detail—a natural extension of the great poet's voice.
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780525520245
For the first time in a stand-alone edition, the acclaimed poet's classic poem about his communication with Ephraim, a guiding spirit in the Other World, is here introduced and annotated by poet and Merrill scholar Stephen Yenser. "The Book of Ephraim," which first appeared as the final poem in James Merrill's Pulitzer-winning volume Divine Comedies (1976), tells the story of how he and his partner David Jackson (JM and DJ as they came to be known) embarked on their experiments with the Ouija board and how they conversed after a fashion with great writers and thinkers of the past, especially in regard to the state of the increasingly imperiled planet Earth. One of the most ambitious long poems in in English in the twentieth century, originally conceived as complete in itself, it was to become the first part of Merrill's epic The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), the multiple prize-winning volume still in print. Merrill's "supreme tribute to the web of the world and the convergence of means and meanings everywhere within it" is introduced and annotated by one of his literary executors, Stephen Yenser, in a volume that will gratify veteran readers and entice new ones.
Author : James Ingram Merrill
Publisher : Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0679747362
James Merrill's audacious and dazzling epic poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years. Individual parts won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the entire poem, when it was collected into one volume in 1982, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. The book carries us to the scene of Merrill's Ouija board sessions with his partner, David Jackson--the candlelit Stonington dining room with its flame-colored walls and the famous Willowware cup they used as a pointer in their occult travels. In a shimmering interplay of verse forms, Merrill set down their extended conversations with their familiar and guide, Ephraim (a first-century Greek Jew), W.H. Auden, W.B. Yeats, Plato, a brilliant peacock named Mirabell, and other old friends who had passed to the other side. JM (whom the spirits call "scribe") and DJ ("hand") are also introduced to the lonely eminence God B ("God Biology"), his sister Mother Nature, and a host of angels and lesser residents of the empyrean who are variously involved in the ways of this world. The laughter, the missteps, and the schoolroom frustrations of the earthly pair's gradual enlightenment make this otherworldly journey, finally, an utterly human one. A unique exploration of the writer's role in a postatomic, postreligious age, Sandover has been compared to the work of Yeats, Proust, Milton, and Blake. Merrill's tale of the joys and tragedies of man's powers, and his message about the importance of our endangered efforts to make a good life on earth, will stand as one of the most profound experiences available to readers of poetry. --Alfred A. Knopf.
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015051276643
An essential addition to every shelf of 20-century poetry.
Author : Stephen Yenser
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674166159
Yenser ranges over all of Merrill's writing to date, from a precocious book printed when its author was fifteen to his most recent publication, a verse play. He writes about both of the poet's novels and pays particular attention to the epic poem The Changing Light at Sandover.
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : New York : Atheneum, 1978, 1979 printing.
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015000576507
Mirabell: Books of Number is a volume of poetry; the second of three books which together form the epic 560-page poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, which was published as a whole in 1982.
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781101907856
A beautiful hardcover selection of poems by one of the giants of contemporary American poetry. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POETS. James Merrill once called his body of work "chronicles of love and loss," and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his own life--comic and haunting, exotic and domestic--to shape a portrait that in turn mirrored the image of our world and our moment. Like Wallace Stevens and W. H. Auden before him, Merrill sought to quicken the pulse of a poem in surprising and compelling ways--ways, indeed, that changed how we came to see our own lives. Years ago, the critic Helen Vendler wrote of Merrill, "He has become one of our indispensable poets." This volume brings together an entirely new pocket-sized selection of the best of Merrill's work. His poetry dazzles at every turn, and this balanced and compact selection will be an ideal introduction to the work for both students and general readers, and an instant favorite among his familiars.
Author : Alison Lurie
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015049978631
Among the results of this intense preoccupation with the occult were a book-length poem, which some critics have called a masterpiece, and the possible destruction of several lives.".
Author : Timothy Materer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801437601
"Materer interprets Merrill's body of work from the perspective of his epic The Changing Light at Sandover and shows that in his earliest poems and in the volumes preceding The Changing Light, Merrill repeatedly expressed his fear of nuclear holocaust and his sense that some momentous revelation was near at hand. Materer demonstrates how apocalyptic motifs also inspire Late Settings, The Inner Room, and A Scattering of Salts."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Reena Sastri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135914141
James Merrill: Knowing Innocence reevaluates the achievement of this important poet by showing how he takes up an old paradigm – innocence – and reinvents it in response to new historical, scientific, and cultural developments including the bomb, contemporary cosmology, and the question of agency. The book covers Merrill’s full career, emphasizing the late poetry, on which there remains little commentary. Illuminating both Merrill’s relation to a tradition of literary innocence from Milton to Blake and Wordsworth to Emerson and Stevens, and his relevance to contemporary cultural debates, the rubric of "knowing innocence" helps us to understand his achievement. Merrill undertakes a career-long effort to know innocence, and develops a thematic and stylistic attitude that is both innocent and knowing, combining attitudes of wonder and hope with reflexive wit, intellectual breadth, and an unflinching gaze at mortality. He ultimately imagines innocence as creative agency, a capacity for imagination, invention, and ethical responsibility. The book demonstrates how, addressing questions of sexual identity, childhood and memory; atomic science, the big bang, and black holes; environmental degradation; AIDS; and the notion of the death of history – while honoring poetry’s essential qualities of freedom and play – his poems perform cultural work crucial to his time and ours.
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0679765905
Presents a collection of poetry in which the author transforms autobiographical insights and experiences into profound meditations on life and the world around him.
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : New York : Atheneum
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015007048906
James Merrill has come to be regarded as one of the outstanding American poets of the 20th century with the publication of his Changing Light at Sandover, a grand, narrative poem in its complete form, and From the First Nine, Poems 1946-1976, a full selection from his first nine books of poems. In Late Settings he has produced another book of poems of the greatest distinction. Included in this collection is a set of six poems called "From the Cutting-room Floor." Another amazing long poem "Santorini: Stopping the Leak" (originally published, minus two stanzas, in The New Yorker) is included in its entirety. Merill's works have been honored with several awards: two National Book Awards, the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Book Critics Circle Award. ISBN 0-689-11572-5 : $12.95.
Author : Robert Polito
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472065246
An invaluable road map for the epic poem of our time
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780307555212
Following the widely celebrated Collected Poems, this second volume in the series of James Merrill’s works brings us Merrill as novelist and playwright. Just as in his poems we come upon prose pieces, dramatic dialogue, and even a short play in verse, in his novels and plays we find the rhythms of his poetry reflected and given new form. Merrill’s first novel, The Seraglio, is a daring roman à clef derived in large part from his early life as the cosmopolitan son of Charles Merrill, one of America’s most famous twentieth-century financiers. Written in a highly refined prose that owes something to Henry James, the book is a compelling portrait of the luxury and treachery swirling around the Southampton beach house of an irrepressible family patriarch, with his many mistresses and ex-mistresses in attendance, told from the point of view of his lively but troubled son. At the other end of the narrative spectrum we find The (Diblos) Notebook, an experimental novel in which a young American’s adventures on a Greek island are deconstructed and assembled into a tentative fiction before our eyes. Merrill’s plays, including the one-act comedy of manners The Bait and the Chekhovian The Immortal Husband—a reinvention of the myth of Tithonus, who was granted eternal life but not eternal youth—are also fresh turns on his characteristic themes: home and travel, reality and artifice, simplicity and complication. And, for the first time in print, here is Merrill’s short play The Birthday, a fledgling effort written in 1947 and a fascinating window onto the concern with spiritual communication and the otherwordly that would later blossom into his great epic, The Changing Light at Sandover.