A Scattering of Salts (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: James Merrill
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
- Subjects: Memory, Love or romance, Autobiography, Cats, Islands, Time, Volcanoes, Puns or punning, Mirrors or lenses
James Merrill died on February 6, 1995. A Scattering of Salts was the fifteenth and last in a series of collections of poems that began in 1951, when his First Poems was published. It brings to an end a career and body of work that became increasingly original with the passage of time.
From the beginning, Merrill was recognized as a master of verse forms and a prodigious technician. He always seemed to be at home with the most demanding requirements of poetry. Even as a young man, Merrill wrote with an almost Augustan control and intricacy. When he was...
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