James Merrill
James Merrill: Selected full-text books and articles
New Poets of England and America
Meridian Books, 1957
Librarian's tip: includes "The Bed," "Cloud Country," "Variations: The Air Is Sweetest That a Thistle Guards" and "For a Second Marriage"
PRIMARY SOURCE
A primary source is a work that is being studied, or that provides first-hand or direct evidence on a topic. Common types of primary sources include works of literature, historical documents, original philosophical writings, and religious texts.
The New Anthology of American Poetry
Rutgers University Press, vol.3, 2012
Librarian's tip: includes "The Victor Dog" and "Self-Portrait in Tyvek Windbreaker”
PRIMARY SOURCE
A primary source is a work that is being studied, or that provides first-hand or direct evidence on a topic. Common types of primary sources include works of literature, historical documents, original philosophical writings, and religious texts.
Artists' Theatre: Four Plays
Grove Press, 1960
Librarian's tip: includes "The Bait" by James Merrill
PRIMARY SOURCE
A primary source is a work that is being studied, or that provides first-hand or direct evidence on a topic. Common types of primary sources include works of literature, historical documents, original philosophical writings, and religious texts.
James Merrill's Apocalypse
Cornell University Press, 2000
James Merrill's Embodied Memory
Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 59, No. 4, Winter 2013
James Merrill's Manners and Elizabeth Bishop's Dismay
Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 50, No. 2, Summer 2004
How Not to Shed Tears, and What to Do, Instead: James Merrill
The Midwest Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 3, Spring 2001
An Aesthetics of Enclosure: James Merrill's Inner Rooms
English Studies in Canada, Vol. 31, No. 1, March 2005
PEER-REVIEWED PERIODICAL
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Mirrored Lives: Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill
Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 51, No. 2, Summer 2005
The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene
Princeton University Press, 2011
Librarian's tip: Chap. 2 "Father of Forms: Merrill, Auden, and a Fable of Influence"
Ghostwriting Modernism
Cornell University Press, 2002
Librarian's tip: Chap. 6 "Ghostwriting Postmodernism"
Exploring 'The Changing Light at Sandover': An Interview with James Merrill
Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 38, No. 4, Winter 1992
Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights: An A-to-Z Guide
Greenwood Press, 2003
Librarian's tip: "James Merrill (1926–1995)" begins on p. 316
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