James Merrill's Apocalypse - Couverture rigide

Materer, Timothy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801437601 ISBN 13 : 9780801437601

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Covering James Merrill's complete career, this work of criticism is also an introduction to Merrill's poetry and fiction. Timothy Materer observes that while Merrill gained fame as a creator of finely crafted lyric poems, he was obsessed with the violence of the modern era and with the threatening reality that underlies everyday experience - themes found throughout his work. 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 continued to inspire the works "Late Settings", "The Inner Room" and "A Scattering of Salts". In these final volumes, Merrill characterizes himself as "waiting companionably for kingdom come". Making extensive use of the poet's own letters, journals and papers at Washington University, Materer's volume aims to illuminate James Merrill's secure place in American letters.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801437601
• ISBN 13: 9780801437601
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 172
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