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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.

James Merrill's Apocalypse

Author : Timothy Materer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801437601
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book James Merrill's Apocalypse written by Timothy Materer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

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.

A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover

Author : Robert Polito
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472065240
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover written by Robert Polito and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable road map for the epic poem of our time

James Merrill, Postmodern Magus

Author : Evans Lansing Smith
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297647
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book James Merrill, Postmodern Magus written by Evans Lansing Smith and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the unique voices in our century, James Merrill was known for his mastery of prosody; his ability to write books that were not just collected poems but unified works in which each individual poem contributed to the whole; and his astonishing evolution from the formalist lyric tradition that influenced his early work to the spiritual epics of his later career. Merrill's accomplishments were recognized with a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for Divine Comedies and a National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983 for The Changing Light at Sandover. In this meticulously researched, carefully argued work, Evans Lansing Smith argues that the nekyia, the circular Homeric narrative describing the descent into the underworld and reemergence in the same or similar place, confers shape and significance upon the entirety of James Merrill’s poetry. Smith illustrates how pervasive this myth is in Merrill’s work – not just in The Changing Light at Sandover, where it naturally serves as the central premise of the entire trilogy, but in all of the poet’s books, before and after that central text. By focusing on the details of versification and prosody, Smith demonstrates the ingenious fusion of form and content that distinguishes Merrill as a poet. Moving beyond purely literary interpretations of the poetry, Smith illuminates the numerous allusions to music, art, theology, philosophy, religion, and mythology found throughout Merrill’s work.

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.

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.

A Study Guide for James Merrill's "Lost in Translation"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410351521
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for James Merrill's "Lost in Translation" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for James Merrill's "Lost in Translation," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

James Merrill

Author : Judith Moffett
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231515139
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (151 download)

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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

The Advocate

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Advocate written by and published by . This book was released on 2001-05-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.

The Official Guide for GMAT Verbal Review 2016 with Online Question Bank and Exclusive Video

Author : GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council)
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119042569
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Official Guide for GMAT Verbal Review 2016 with Online Question Bank and Exclusive Video written by GMAC (Graduate Management Admission Council) and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ace the GMAT® with the only official study guides from the creators of the exam With 25% brand new content, The Official Guide for the GMAT Verbal Review 2016 is the only official study guide focusing on the verbal portion of the GMAT® exam. It delivers more than 300 retired questions from the GMAT®, complete with answer explanations to help focus your test preparation efforts. Also includes exclusive online resources: Build your own practice tests with exclusive online access to 300 reading comprehension, critical reasoning, and sentence correction questions from official GMAT® exams Exclusive access to videos with insight and tips on GMAT preparation from previous test-takers and from the officials who create the test

Stonington

Author : M. Earl Smith
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439671362
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Stonington written by M. Earl Smith and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Stonington's four founding fathers first laid eyes on the bucolic shoreline inhabited by the Pequot tribe, it was impossible for them to predict that the future state of Connecticut would produce nearly four centuries of American history. What became their sleepy coastal borough flourished from a "stony town" into what is now known as Stonington. Fishermen, whalers, and sealers would lead a boom in the 1800s, shaping a lifestyle that still persists as a testament to the area's heritage. Stonington survived major wars, an economic depression, and catastrophic hurricanes to thrive as an intimate yet welcoming community that harbored major motion pictures such as Mystic Pizza, Amistad, and Hope Springs. The town became a haven for Pulitzer Prize poet James Merrill and sustained a 1990s tourism revitalization that transformed it into one of New England's most precious hidden gems. Today, delectable seafood restaurants, charming shops, an abundantly rich historical heritage, and a picturesque seaside ambience put Stonington and its history at the quintessential forefront of every excursion to southeastern Connecticut.

Senate documents

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Senate documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Language, Mind, and Art

Author : D. Jamieson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401583137
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Language, Mind, and Art written by D. Jamieson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays in honor of Paul Ziff written by his col leagues, students, and friends. Many of the authors address topics that Ziff has discussed in his writings: understanding, rules and regularities, proper names, the feelings of machines, expression, and aesthetic experience. Paul Ziff began his professional career as an artist, went on to study painting with J. M. Hanson at Cornell, and then studied for the Ph. D. in philosophy, also at Cornell, with Max Black. Over the next three decades he produced a series of remarkable papers in philosophy of art, culminating in 1984 with the publica tion of Antiaesthetics: An Appreciation of the Cow with the Subtile Nose. In 1960 he published Semantic Analysis, his masterwork in philosophy of lan guage. Throughout his career he made important contributions to philosophy of mind in such papers as "The Simplicity of Other Minds" (1965) and "About Behaviourism" (1958). In addition to his work in these areas, his lec tures at Harvard on philosophy of religion are an underground classic; and throughout his career he has continued to make art and to search for the meaning of life in the properties of prime numbers. Although his interests are wide and deep, questions about language, art, and mind have dominated his philosophical work, and it is problems in these areas that provide the topics of most of the essays in this volume.

Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and Reserve Officers on Active Duty

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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James Merrill

Author : Ross Labrie
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book James Merrill written by Ross Labrie and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Reserve Officers on Active Duty

Author : United States. Navy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Navy and Reserve Officers on Active Duty written by United States. Navy and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: