Merrill, James - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Blasing, Mutlu Konuk. “Rethinking Models of Literary Change: The Case of James Merrill.” American Literary History 2, No. 2 (Summer 1990): 299-317.

Considers Merrill's postmodernism despite the apparent conventionality and formalism of his verse.

Buckley, C. A. “Quantum Physics and the Ouija-Board: James Merrill's Holistic World View.” Mosaic 26, No. 2 (Spring 1993): 39-61.

Views Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover as “a blend of science and visionary lore spliced with topical issues and autobiography.” Buckley suggests that Merrill's objective in the work is to confront science with a poetic vision.

Ettin, Andrew V. “On James Merrill's Nights and Days.” Perspective 15, No. 1 (Spring-Summer 1967): 33-51.

Study of Nights and Days that sees the volume as “technically more assured, more allusive, more daring, more...

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