258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
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James Merrill: Knowing Innocence reevaluates the achievement of this important poet by showing how he takes up an old paradigm – innocence – and reinvents it in response to new historical, scientific, and cultural developments including the bomb, contemporary cosmology, and the question of agency. The book covers Merrill’s full career, emphasizing the late poetry, on which there remains little... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Scenes of Childhood; Chapter 2 “Beyond Arcadia at last”?; Chapter 3 The Changing Light; Chapter 4 “The X / Of the illiterate”; Chapter 5 A Scattering of Salts; Chapter 6 Conclusion;
Biography
Reena Sastri
"Reena Sastri’s Knowing Innocence provides a comprehensive guide to Merrill’s lyric poems and also illuminates his epic poetry and fiction."
-- MODERNISM/ modernity
