James Merrill, Postmodern Magus: Myth and Poetics

by Evans Lansing Smith

One of the unique voices in our century, James Merrill was known for his mastery of prosody; his ability to write books that were not just collected poems but unified works in which each individual poem contributed to the whole; and his astonishing evolution from the formalist lyric tradition that influenced his early work to the spiritual epics of his later career. Merrill's accomplishments were recognized with a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for Divine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1587296969
• ISBN13: 9781587296963
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.2"