The Changing Light at Sandover (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Merrill
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Creation myth
Critical Evaluation:
The Changing Light at Sandover is an assemblage of three previously published books of poetry by James Merrill to which is added a new poem, “Coda: The Higher Keys.” The trilogy, as the first three books are commonly known, begins with the 1976 “The Book of Ephraim,” which was originally the second half of Merrill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of poems, Divine Comedies. The next section of The Changing Light at Sandover is “Mirabell: A Book of Numbers.” For inclusion in The Changing Light at Sandover, Merrill...
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