SOURCE: “The Error of His Ways: James Merrill and the Fall into Myth,” in American Poetry, Vol. 7, No. 3, Spring, 1990, pp. 64-86.
In the following essay, Materer probes the mythic unconscious of Merrill's poetry.
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