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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date
November 1, 2002
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375709418
ISBN-10
037570941X
Dimensions
1.75 by 6 by 9.25 in.
Weight
2.65 lbs.
Original list price
$27.50
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The Changing Light at Sandover | James Merrill | The Dream Songs | The Complete Poems of Hart Crane | Complete Poems | Poems | Collected Poems | Collected Poems, 1951-1971 | The Collected Poems of W.b. Yeats
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Fifty years of the author's acclaimed poetry--with works ranging from his earliest anthology, The Black Swan and Other Poems, to the posthumous volume A Scattering of Salts--are collected into a single volume for the first time, celebrating a lifetime of verse by one of the twentieth century's literary masters. Reprint.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The publication of James Merrill's Collected Poems is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poemsâits sophistication and virtuosity were recognized at onceâappeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened and his voice took on its characteristic richness. In book after book, his urbanity and wit, his intriguing images and paradoxes, shone with a rare brilliance. As he once told an interviewer, he "looked for English in its billiard-table senseâwords that have been set spinning against their own gravity." But beneath their surface glamour, his poems were driven by an audacious imagination that continually sought to deepen and refine our perspectives on experience. Among other roles, he was one of the supreme love poets of the twentieth century. In delicate lyric or complex narrative, this book abounds with what he once called his "chronicles of love and loss." Like Wallace Stevens and W. H. Auden before him, Merrill sought to quicken the pulse of a poem in surprising and compelling waysâways, indeed, that changed how we came to see our own lives. Years ago, the critic Helen Vendler spoke for others when she wrote of Merrill, "The time eventually comes, in a good poet's career, when readers actively wait for his books: to know that someone out there is writing down your century, your generation, your language, your life . . . He has become one of our indispensable poets."
This book brings together a remarkable body of work in an authoritative edition. From Merrill's privately printed book, The Black Swan, published in 1946, to his posthumous collection, A Scattering of Salts, which appeared in 1995, all of the poems he published are included, except for juvenalia and his epic, The Changing Light at Sandover. In addition, twenty-one of his translations (from Apollinaire, Montale, and Cavafy, among others) and forty-four of his previously uncollected poems (including those written in the last year of his life) are gathered here for the first time.
Collected Poems in the first volume in a series that will present all of James Merrill's workâhis novels and plays, and his collected prose. Together, these volumes will testify to a monumental career that distinguished American literature in the late twentieth century and will continue to inspire readers and writers for years to come.
From the Hardcover edition.
This book brings together a remarkable body of work in an authoritative edition. From Merrill's privately printed book, The Black Swan, published in 1946, to his posthumous collection, A Scattering of Salts, which appeared in 1995, all of the poems he published are included, except for juvenalia and his epic, The Changing Light at Sandover. In addition, twenty-one of his translations (from Apollinaire, Montale, and Cavafy, among others) and forty-four of his previously uncollected poems (including those written in the last year of his life) are gathered here for the first time.
Collected Poems in the first volume in a series that will present all of James Merrill's workâhis novels and plays, and his collected prose. Together, these volumes will testify to a monumental career that distinguished American literature in the late twentieth century and will continue to inspire readers and writers for years to come.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Reprint edition from Alfred a Knopf Inc (November 1, 2002)
9780375709418 | details & prices | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.75 in. | 2.65 lbs | List price $27.50
About: Collects fifty years of the author's poetry, celebrating a lifetime of verse.
About: Collects fifty years of the author's poetry, celebrating a lifetime of verse.
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