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Collected Novels and Plays of James Merrill

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307555216
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Collected Novels and Plays of James Merrill written by James Merrill and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Collected Prose

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Collected Prose written by James Merrill and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2004 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Collected Poems

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 918 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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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.

James Merrill

Author : Langdon Hammer
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0385353081
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book James Merrill written by Langdon Hammer and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Langdon Hammer has given us the first biography of the poet James Merrill (1926–95), whose life is surely one of the most fascinating in American literature. Merrill was born to high privilege and high expectations as the son of Charles Merrill, the charismatic cofounder of the brokerage firm Merrill Lynch, and Hellen Ingram, a muse, ally, and antagonist throughout her son’s life. Wounded by his parents’ bitter divorce, he was the child of a broken home, looking for repair in poetry and love. This is the story of a young man escaping, yet also reenacting, the energies and obsessions of those powerful parents. It is the story of a gay man inventing his identity against the grain of American society during the eras of the closet, gay liberation, and AIDS. Above all, it is the story of a brilliantly gifted, fiercely dedicated poet working every day to turn his life into art. After college at Amherst and a period of adventure in Europe, Merrill returned to the New York art world of the 1950s (he was friendly with W. H. Auden, Maya Deren, Truman Capote, Larry Rivers, Elizabeth Bishop, and other midcentury luminaries) and began publishing poems, plays, and novels. In 1953, he fell in love with an aspiring writer, David Jackson. They explored “boys and bars” as they made their life together in Connecticut and later in Greece and Key West. At the same time, improbably, they carried on a forty-year conversation with spirits of the Other World by means of a Ouija board. The board became a source of poetic inspiration for Merrill, culminating in his prizewinning, uncanny, one-of-a-kind work The Changing Light at Sandover. In his virtuosic poetry and in the candid letters and diaries that enrich every page of this deliciously readable life, Merrill created a prismatic art of multiple perspectives and comic self-knowledge, expressing hope for a world threatened by nuclear war and environmental catastrophe. Holding this life and art together in a complex, evolving whole, Hammer illuminates Merrill's “chronicles of love & loss” and the poignant personal journey they record.

Collected Prose

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Collected Prose written by James Merrill and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2004 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Selected Poems of James Merrill

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 037571166X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of James Merrill written by James Merrill and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Merrill himself 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. This volume brings together the best of Merrill—from the domestic rupture of “The Broken Home” to the universal connections of “Lost in Translation”; from the American storyteller of “The Summer People” to the ecologically motivated satirist of “Self-Portrait in a TyvekTM Windbreaker.” Merrill 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. Log Then when the flame forked like a sudden path I gasped and stumbled, and was less. Density pulsing upward, gauze of ash, Dear light along the way to nothingness, What could be made of you but light, and this?

The Seraglio

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Seraglio written by James Merrill and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Scattering of Salts

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Scattering of Salts written by James Merrill and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, his first new book of poems in seven years, Merrill is at the top of his form. His unrivalled poetic use of the private life is brilliantly evident. The stuff of autobiography is transfigured becoming a medium for the profoundest truth, couched in a language that draws on both rueful wit and elegant slang. From Nine Lives, an Athenian fable, through Volcanic Holiday, with its euphoric helicopter ride, to Family Week at Oracle Ranch, set in a New Age rehab center, his vivid glimpses of the real world widen into surprising and meditative visions that touch us all.

Collected Novels and Plays

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Collected Novels and Plays written by James Merrill and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2002 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 a 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 atSandover."

The Inner Room

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Inner Room written by James Merrill and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1988-10-26 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Merrill's new collection, The Inner Room, combines symmetry with surprise.The first and last of its five parts include, in addition to diverse two masterly long poems each ('Morning Glory' and 'A Room at the Heart of Things' in Part I and 'Walks in Rome' and 'Losing the Marbles' in Part V). The central section, an arrangement of shorter poems and a bittersweet meditation written some years ago but not collected until now, is framed by the book's most startling accomplishments. In Part II Merrill returns to the verse drama, a genre that he has not worked in since the 1950s, when 'The Bait' was produced off-Broadway. 'The Image Maker' is an exquisitely fashioned one-act play about a santero, a saint-maker, whose carved figures are objects of veneration and sources of power in his Caribbean village. The santero also practices santeria, the Latin American religion that syncretizes the Yoruba lore which the slaves brought with them from West Africa and the Catholicism imposed on them in their new world. In this exotic context, Merrill rings changes on themes developed in his epic poem The Changing Light at Sandover. Part IV, a sequence entitled 'Prose of Departure, is itself another striking departure from Merrill's recent work. Set mostly in Japan, it intertwines narratives of beginnings and endings even as it intersperses its prose with hokku in a manner reminiscent of Basho's travel journals -- though the delicately managed rhymes set Merrill's cachet upon the form. Among the other work here are poems in Sapphics and in syllabics; a villanelle whose recursions celebrate memory', and a doubled anagram, in which the English poem is shadowed by a French version" Stephen Yenser author of The Consuming Myth, The Work of James Merrill

James Merrill Poems

Author : James Merrill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841598086
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book James Merrill Poems written by James Merrill and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Merrill once called his poetic works 'chronicles of love and loss', and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his life - comic and haunting, exotic and domestic - to shape a compelling, sometimes intensely moving, personal portrait. Sophisticated, witty and ironic, his poetry also engages passionately with topical issues - war, terrorism, political corruption, AIDS, climate change and the destruction of nature. An admirer of Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop and W. H. Auden, Merrill, like them, has left a legacy that will speak to readers for years to come.

James Merrill

Author : Reena Sastri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135914141
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book James Merrill written by Reena Sastri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, and Other Poems

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, and Other Poems written by James Merrill and published by Scribner. This book was released on 1970 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The (Diblos) Notebook

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : New York, Atheneum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The (Diblos) Notebook written by James Merrill and published by New York, Atheneum. This book was released on 1965 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known as a poet, James Merrill is also an accomplished novelist, and in The (Diblos) Notebook artfully lays bare the process of writing a novel. A young American writer keeps a notebook that records at one and the same time a series of events on the Greek island of Diblos in which he is deeply involved, and his attempts to transform these events into a novel. Everything that might be found in such a notebook is used here with great cunning: the false starts that end in the middle of a thought; the endless revisions, canceled out in the search for the right word or phrase; the many approaches and backtrackings as the writer seeks an entrance to the materials through several possible doors; the musings on how the material is to be treated; and the wrestlings with the problem of appearance and assumed reality. The author has written an afterword for this new edition of his 1965 novel.

James Merrill and W.H. Auden

Author : P. Gwiazda
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230607160
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book James Merrill and W.H. Auden written by P. Gwiazda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Recitative

Author : James Ingram Merrill
Publisher : San Francisco : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865472556
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Recitative written by James Ingram Merrill and published by San Francisco : North Point Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original collection of criticism, essays, and interviews written over the last 40 years by one of America's foremost poets.

The Changing Light at Sandover

Author : James Merrill
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Changing Light at Sandover written by James Merrill and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 2006 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dazzling epic poem remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years starting in 1976.