Author:
Merrill, James, 1926-1995.
Imprint:New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2004.
Descriptionx, 737 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:WRITING: Accoustical chambers -- The education of the poet -- Jung love -- On literary tradition -- On "The country of a thousand years of peace" -- On "Snapshot of Adam" -- Foreword to Recitative -- from Pourquoi écrivez-vous? -- On allusion -- The poet's notebook -- On Scripts for the pageant: The first five lessons -- On "The ballroom at Sandover" -- Foreword to A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's The changing light at Sandover -- INTERVIEWS: An interview with .... Donald Sheehan -- Ashley Brown -- Joan Boatwright and Enrique Ucelay DaCal -- David Kalstone -- Helen Vendler -- Ross Labrie -- J.D. McClatchy -- Jack Stewart -- Fred Bornhauser -- Jordan Pecile -- Thomas Bolt -- Augustin Hedberg -- Roderick Townley -- Heather White -- Justin Spring -- WRITERS: Divine poem -- Unreal citizen -- Object lessons -- On Wallace Stevens's centenary -- On "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" -- On Montale's "Mottetti VII" -- Foreword to Nineteen Poems -- On Elizabeth Bishop -- Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) -- The transparent eye --- 624 White Street -- Memories of Elizabeth bishop -- Afterword to Becoming a Poet -- Memories of Truman Capote -- Memories of Mary McCarthy -- Introducing Richard Wilbur -- Howard Moss -- On W.S. Merwin -- Preface to Burning the Knife -- Robert Bagg: a postscript -- The Relic, Promises, and Poems -- THE YALE YOUNGER POETS: Forewords to .... The Evolution of the Flightless Bird -- Navigable Waterways -- Terms to be met -- Above the land -- To the place of trumpets -- Out of the woods -- Landscape with hermit -- OCCASIONS: The beaten path -- Garlic soup -- Notes on Corot -- Ten more -- Yannis tsarouchis -- Acceptance speeches, National Book Awards 1967 and 1979 -- A class day talk -- Foreword to Le Sorelle Brontë -- Ravel's Mother Goose -- Barbara Kassel -- Memorial tributes to ... David Kalstone -- John Bernard Myers -- Irma Brandeis -- A tribute to Maria Bullock -- M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992) -- Memorial tribute to John Hersey -- Patmos -- STORIES: Rose -- Driver -- Peru: the landscape game -- TRANSLATIONS: Selections from Chamfort -- C.P. Cavafy, "In broad daylight" -- Vassilis Vassilikos, "The three T's" -- JUVENILIA: Madonna -- Angel or earthly creature -- Undergraduate comment - The transformation of Rilke -- A DIFFERENT PERSON: A MEMOIR (1993)
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