James Merrill, postmodern magus: myth and poetics
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| Physical Description: | vi; 268 S. |
| ISBN: | 9781587296963 1587296969 |
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| adam_text | 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 con¬
tributed to the whole; and his astonishing
evolution from the formalist lyric tradi¬
tion 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 Com¬
edies 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 narra¬
tive describing the descent into the under¬
world 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 Chang¬
ing 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 versifica¬
tion and prosody, Smith demonstrates the
ingenious fusion of form and content that
distinguishes Merrill as a poet. Moving be¬
yond purely literary interpretations of the
poetry, Smith illuminates the numerous al¬
lusions to music, art, theology, philosophy,
religion, and mythology found throughout
Merrill s work.
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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 con¬
tributed to the whole; and his astonishing
evolution from the formalist lyric tradi¬
tion 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 Com¬
edies 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 narra¬
tive describing the descent into the under¬
world 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 Chang¬
ing 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 versifica¬
tion and prosody, Smith demonstrates the
ingenious fusion of form and content that
distinguishes Merrill as a poet. Moving be¬
yond purely literary interpretations of the
poetry, Smith illuminates the numerous al¬
lusions to music, art, theology, philosophy,
religion, and mythology found throughout
Merrill's work. |
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