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Critical Essay by Judith Moffett
Divine Comedies is the watershed book of James Merrill's life as a poet. Characterized by resolution and reconciliation and by Proustian recall, it is his most ...
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Critical Essay by Clara Claiborne Park
[Divine Comedies: Poems] is a verse not orphaned but fully parented in the flesh and the spirit, suckled, if not by Woolf, by a crowd of others. Yeats and Steven...
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Critical Essay by Phoebe Pettingell
Ouija? Heavenly messengers? Their appearance will not surprise readers of Merrill's Divine Comedies (1976). In that work, the poet told of bizarre communicat...
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Critical Essay by Helen Vendler
In [Divine Comedies], where most of the poems have a narrative emphasis, Merrill succeeds in expressing his sensibility in a style deliberately invoking Scheherazade&#x...
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Critical Essay by Judith Moffett
