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James Merrill, Postmodern Magus - Myth and Poetics (Hardcover, Revised)
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James Merrill, Postmodern Magus - Myth and Poetics (Hardcover, Revised)
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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 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.
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