Merrill, James (Vol. 2) - Merrill, James 1926–
Merrill, James 1926–
An American poet, novelist, and playwright, Merrill is the author of The Country of 1000 Years of Peace (poems). (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 13-14.)
James Merrill is the most graceful, attractive, and accomplished of the "elegants": the highly skilled, charming, agreeable craftsmen of the forties and fifties who promised most and delivered least. These are the leisurely European travelers: the rootless, well-mannered, multilingual young men: the sophisticated, talented, slightly world-weary occasional poets of the last twenty years, who have done everything perfectly according to quite acceptable standards, and have just as surely stopped short of real significance, real engagement…. The goals which Merrill has set himself have served as ideals for dozens of books of verse during the last two decades, among which Merrill's two volumes [First Poems and The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace...
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