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Author : Langdon Hammer
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375413332
Total Pages : 978 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book James Merrill written by Langdon Hammer and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A biography of the acclaimed poet James Merrill"--
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 110187550X
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Whole World written by James Merrill and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0525520244
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book of Ephraim written by James Merrill and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Merrill
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)
Download or read book Collected Poems written by James Merrill and published by Knopf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential addition to every shelf of 20-century poetry.
Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 9780689112836
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Changing Light at Sandover written by James Merrill and published by Scribner. This book was released on 1982 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystical poems explore the author's experiences communicating with a spirit named Ephraim through an Ouija board
Author : Stephen Yenser
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674166158
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Consuming Myth written by Stephen Yenser and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1101907851
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)
Download or read book Merrill: Poems written by James Merrill and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book Familiar Spirits written by Alison Lurie and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 2001 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James Merrill
Publisher : New York : Atheneum, 1978, 1979 printing.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mirabell, Books of Number written by James Merrill and published by New York : Atheneum, 1978, 1979 printing.. This book was released on 1978 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Judith Moffett
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231515139
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)
Download or read book James Merrill written by Judith Moffett and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1984-04-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Merrill
