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Author: Guy L. Rotella Publisher: Twayne Publishers ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 280
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This volume collects representative scholarship on the work of one of our most honoured contemporary poets. A selection of reviews provides a snapshot of Merrill's critical reception; eight essays offer an introduction to Merrill's life and work; and the introduction places Merrill's career in literary, cultural, and critical contexts by means of an extended bibliographical narrative. This volume includes works by some of the finest contemporary poets and critics, including Mona Van Duyn, John Hollander, Stephen Yenser, Lynn Keller, and David Kalstone.
Author: Guy L. Rotella Publisher: Twayne Publishers ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 280
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This volume collects representative scholarship on the work of one of our most honoured contemporary poets. A selection of reviews provides a snapshot of Merrill's critical reception; eight essays offer an introduction to Merrill's life and work; and the introduction places Merrill's career in literary, cultural, and critical contexts by means of an extended bibliographical narrative. This volume includes works by some of the finest contemporary poets and critics, including Mona Van Duyn, John Hollander, Stephen Yenser, Lynn Keller, and David Kalstone.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9781646932955 Category : Criticism Languages : en Pages :
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A collection of critical essays on the works of American poet James Merrill, arranged in chronological order of publication.This is an electronic version of the original edition of this;Bloom's Modern Critical Views;title, cont.
Author: James Merrill Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 110187550X Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 745
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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: David Lehman Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 356
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Merrill's trilogy, published in three separate volumes and reprinted in its entirety in The Changing Light at Sandover (Atheneum, 1982), provides the focal point and inspiration for these 11 essays. The authors cover Merrill's linguistic inventiveness and his love of puns and palindromes. Includes David Kalstone's essay on autobiographical details in Merrill's work, Rachel Jacoff's explanation of his debt to Dante and David Jackson's eyewitness account of Merrill transcribing messages at his Ouija board. ISBN 0-8014-1404-0 : $22.50.
Author: Eric Ormsby Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill ISBN: 0889843341 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 260
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`A poem, I thought, is a physical object, as tactile as a statue. I began to consider poems in textual terms; there were shaggy surfaces, knobbly ones, mere veneers as sleek as glassine, but my favourites were those in which a complex and tensile music prevailed...' Eric Ormsby, that gracious, intelligent and occasionally fractious poet, has produced another vigorous collection of essays to shake North American literary criticism from its lethargy. Opinionated and hilarious, Ormsby indulges his wide-ranging interests and discusses writers from Bob Dylan to S. D. Goitein, La Fontaine to Leo Tolstoy. Fine Incisions also draws connections between Ormsby's literary criticism and his travel writing; as his essay `Shadow Language' notes, the music of another language can seep pleasurably into a writer's work (and, as Ormsby also notes, the lack of such linguistic overlap cheapens much of contemporary poetry!). Although the topics vary widely, Ormsby's viewpoint remains sharp and uncompromising, and his familiarity with North American, British and Arabic literary cultures informs each essay and leads to new and provocative reflection. Most of all, each essay is an expression of Ormsby's own romance with language, and his devotion is clear in his adamant insistence on all writers' very best.
Author: P. Gwiazda Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230607160 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 211
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James Merrill and W.H. Auden offers a substantial analysis of the literary and personal relationship between two major twentieth-century poets. As Gwiazda argues, Auden's prominence in the post-World War II American poetry scene as a homosexual poet and critic makes his impact on Merrill particularly noteworthy. Merrill's imaginary recreation of Auden in his occult verse trilogy The Changing Light at Sandover (1982) offers a powerful statement about the dynamics of poetic influence between gay male poets. Combining archival research, textual analysis, and aspects of queer theory, James Merrill and W.H. Auden examines Sandover's implications to the contentious issues of homosexual identity and self-representation.
Author: Dan Chiasson Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0593317742 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 129
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A father and husband's meditation on love, adolescence, and the mysterious mechanisms of poetic creation, from the acclaimed poet. The poet's art is revealed in stages in this "making-of" book, where we watch as poems take shape--first as dreams or memories, then as drafts, and finally as completed works set loose on the world. In the long poem "Must We Mean What We Say," a woman reader narrates in prose the circumstances behind poems and snippets of poems she receives in letters from a stranger. Who made up whom? Chiasson, an acclaimed poetry critic, has invented a remarkable structure where the reader and a poet speak to one another, across the void of silence and mystery. He is also the father of teenaged sons, and this volume continues the autobiographical arc of his prior, celebrated volumes. One long section is about the age of thirteen and the dawning of desire, while the title poem looks at the crucial age of fifteen and the existential threat of climate change and gun violence, which alters the calculus of adolescence. Though the outlook is bleak, these poems register the glories of our moment: that there are places where boys can kiss each other and not be afraid; that small communities are rousing and taking care of each other; that teenagers have mobilized for a better world. All of these works emerge from the secretive imagination of a father as he measures his own adolescence against that of his sons and explores the complex bedrock of marriage. Chiasson sees a perilous world both navigated and enriched by the passionate young and by the parents--and poets--who care for them.
Author: Guy L. Rotella
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