Relatively little critical attention has been directed towards the explication of James Merrill's difficult poems, much less towards the understanding of his densely-layered symbolism. This is the first comprehensive study to look at Merrill's difficult symbolic system and to provide a close reading of Merrill's epic poem The Changing Light at Sandover. Adams reads Merrill's poetry through various lenses, primarily those of Freudian psychology and of the Jungian archetypal system. His approach allows the reader to view individual works as part of the larger picture of Merrill's quest to save his life through his art.
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"James Merrill as the heir of Plato and Oscar Wilde emerges from Don Adams' close and sensitive reading of the epic and mock-heroic strains in Merrill's poetry. Adams shows Merrill, like W. B. Yeats, confronting the dramatic choice between perfecting his life or his work. Without simplifying the poet's complexity, James Merrill's Poetic Quest reveals a single, deeply serious theme within the dazzling variety of Merrill's poetry."-Timothy Materer Professor of English, University of Missouri--Columbia
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Provides the first comprehensive look at Merrill's difficult symbolic system, allowing readers to view individual works as part of the larger picture of Merrill's quest to save his life through his art.
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When James Merrill published his first book of poems in 1951, few would have predicted that he would go on to write the epic poem of his generation, if not of the century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
destructive anima, childless artist, quest cycle, lost novel, psychic individuation, inner adventure, feminine unconscious, mutable world, poet strives, poet returns, feminine archetype, sublime moment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Book of Ephraim, The Changing Light, Mother Nature, Nine Lives, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Rosamund Smith, Rufus Farmetton, Wallace Stevens, Water Street, Elizabeth Bishop, First Good, Leo Africanus, Robert Morse, The Waste Land New!
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When James Merrill published his first book of poems in 1951, few would have predicted that he would go on to write the epic poem of his generation, if not of the century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
destructive anima, childless artist, quest cycle, lost novel, psychic individuation, inner adventure, feminine unconscious, mutable world, poet strives, poet returns, feminine archetype, sublime moment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Book of Ephraim, The Changing Light, Mother Nature, Nine Lives, Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Rosamund Smith, Rufus Farmetton, Wallace Stevens, Water Street, Elizabeth Bishop, First Good, Leo Africanus, Robert Morse, The Waste Land New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Scripts for the Pageant by James Merrill on 6 pages
- Water Street by J. Merrill on 4 pages
- From the First Nine Poems, 1946-76 by James Merrill in Front Matter, page 1, and Back Matter
- The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Flower beneath the Foot (Modern Classics) by Ronald Firbank on page 120, and Back Matter
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- Jane Austen and Eighteenth-Century Courtesy Books (Contributions to the Study of World Literature) by Penelope Joan Fritzer in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) by Christopher Beach in Back Matter
- Nabokov's World, Volume 2: Reading Nabokov by Jane Grayson on page 203
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