| Description |
x, 737 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Writing -- Acoustical chambers -- The education of the poet -- Jung love -- On literary tradition -- On "The country of a thousand years of peace" -- On "Snapshot of Adam" -- Foreword to Recitative -- From Pourquoi ecrivez-vous -- On allusion -- The poet's notebook -- On Scripts for the pageant : the first five lessons -- On "The ballroom at Sandover -- Foreword to A reader's guide to James Merrill's The changing light at Sandover -- Interviews -- An interview with Donald Sheehan -- An interview with Ashley Brown -- An interview with John Boatwright and Enrique Ucelay DaCal -- On "Yannina" : an interview with David Kalstone -- An interview with Helen Vendler -- An interview with Ross Labrie -- An interview with J.D. McClatchy -- An interview with Jack Stewart -- An interview with Fred Bornhauser -- An interview with Jordan Pecile -- An interview with Thomas Bolt -- An interview with Augustin Hedberg -- An interview with Roderick Townley -- An interview with Heather White -- An interview with Justin Spring -- Writers -- Divine poem -- Unreal citizen -- Object lessons -- On Wallace Steven's centenary -- On "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" -- On Montale's "Mottetti VII" -- Foreword to Nineteen poems -- On Elizabeth Bishop -- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- The transparent eye -- 624 White Street -- Memories of Elizabeth Bishop -- Afterword to Becoming a poet -- Memories of Truman Capote -- Memories of Mary McCarthy -- Introducing Richard Wilbur -- Howard Moss -- On W.S. Merwin -- Preface to Burning the knife -- Robert Bragg : a postscript -- The relic, promises, and poems -- The Yale younger poets -- Foreword to The evolution of the flightless bird -- Foreword to Navigable waterways -- Foreword to Terms to be met -- Foreword to Above the land -- Foreword to the place of trumpets -- Foreword to Out of the woods -- Foreword to Landscape with hermit -- Occasions -- The beaten path -- Garlic soup -- Notes on Corot -- Ten more -- Yannis Tsarouchis -- Acceptance speech, National Book Awards, 1967 -- Acceptance speech, National Book Awards, 1979 -- A class day talk -- foreword to Le Sorelle Bronte -- Ravel's Mother Goose -- Barbara Kassel -- Memorial tribute to David Kalstone -- Memorial tribute to John Bernard Myers -- Memorial tribute to Irma Brandeis -- A tribute to Marie Bullock -- M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992) -- Memorial tribute to John Hersey -- Patmos -- Stories -- Rose -- Driver -- Peru : the landscape game -- Translations -- Selections from Chamfort -- C.P. Cavafy, "In broad daylight" -- Vassilis Vassilikos, "The three T's" -- Juvenilia -- Madonna -- Angel or earthly creature -- Undergraduate comment -- The transformation of Rilke -- A different person : a memoir (1993). |
| Summary |
"Following James Merrill's widely celebrated Collected Poems and Collected Novels and Plays, this volume gives us the man himself and his straightforward exploration of how he became himself. As much as any poet of our time, Merrill conceived of his work and his life as warp and woof, and the prose collected here (from his juvenilia and occasional pieces through his critical writings to his interviews and memoir) shows how bound up in his craft (itself a recurrent topic) were his readings and reflections, his travels and friendships. Even Merrill's most devoted readers will be startled anew at the range of his aesthetic concerns and the depth of his knowledge. Dante and Ponge, Cavafy and Montale, Elizabeth Bishop and Wallace Stevens, all figure prominently here, and the volume is shot through with commentary on music, especially opera, and descriptions of the world's great cities - including New York, Paris, Istanbul, and Kyoto - and their cultural treasures. The volume closes resoundingly with A Different Person, Merrill's memoir of his young life, in which he travels to Europe to explore the culture, comes of age as a gay man, and faces down his legacy as the son of the renowned financier Charles E. Merrill."--Jacket. |
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Merrill, James Ingram -- Essays.
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Merrill, James Ingram.
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Merrill, James Ingram -- Travel.
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Merrill, James Ingram.
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Lyrik.
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Merrill, James, 1926-1995. (OCoLC)fst01754133
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst00915437
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Poets, American. (OCoLC)fst01067794
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Added Author |
McClatchy, J. D., 1945-2018
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Yenser, Stephen.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections. 2004
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Merrill, James Ingram. Selections. 2004. Collected prose. New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004 (OCoLC)644279016 |
| ISBN |
0375411364 |
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9780375411366 |
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