With the completion of The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), which presents the revised "sacred books" of his philosophical verse trilogy with the addition of a coda, James Merrill earned his place as one of the most original and major poets of the...
James Merrill's poetic career has moved steadily from accomplishment to vision; it is no extravagance to predict that his "sacred" books, when completed, will be regarded as a major poetic statement. But "sensational effects have subtle causes,"...
A lyrical and mystical poet often compared to W. H. Auden and William Butler Yeats, James Merrill (1926-1995) is best known for his series of poems inspired by the automatic writing and messages of spirit guides through the medium of an Ouija board....
James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet and one of the most acclaimed American poets of his generation. His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist (if...
James Ingram Merrill, poet: born New York City 3 March 1926; died Tucson, Arizona 6 February 1995. James Merrill was the son of a grotesquely successful stockbroker, co-founder of the firm Merrill Lynch. His childhood was exclusive and pampered, until his father, a...
J. D. McClatchy, Stephen Yenser, eds. New York. Knopf. 2001. xxv + 885 pages $40. ISBN 0-375-41139-9 (70941-X paper) THE EROTIC LIFE was James Merrill's central theme. But in Merrill's poetry, passion runs its course without great politics, with precious little at stake....
EASTSTAMFORD, Conn. (AP) _ A man faces up to five years in prison for tampering with grape juice that made 40 people sick following communion at Calvary Baptist Church in Darien. Wendell Woodroffe, 29, pleaded guilty to charges that he poured dishwashing liquid into the...
