James Merrill, Postmodern Magus: Myth and Poetics

Contents

contents Overture 1 one First Poems 19 two The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace 38 three Water Street 55 four Nights and Days 61 five The Fire Screen 79 six Braving the Elements 88 seven Divine Comedies 114 eight The Book of Ephraim 140 nine The Changing Light at Sandover 165 ten The Inner Room 188 eleven Late Settings and A Scattering of Salts 226 vi Contents Coda 241 Notes 243 Bibliography 253 Index 263 james merrill, postmodern magus ...