After checking out Divine Comedies at the library and reading a few chapters of The Book of Ephraim, I knew I was willing to read the entire epic of The Changing Light at Sandover. Nearly six months later, after having read and reread Ephraim, Mirabell, Scripts and the Coda (the four sections of Merrill's magnum opus) I am ready to pass judgement/5(34). angels, titled The Changing Light at Sandover, which dominated his later career. Although most of his published work was poetry, he also wrote essays, fiction, and plays. Life James Ingram Merrill was born in New York City to Hellen Ingram Merrill and Charles E. Merrill, founding partner of the Merrill Lynch investment firm. He had. The Changing Light at Sandover is vast and often dizzying, as the poet and his companion at the Ouija board, David Jackson, advance to successively higher spirit guides. The poem moves, from the cosmic to the domestic, from Merrill's departed friends to the voices .
— James Merrill (), "The Book of Ephraim" from The Changing Light at Sandover () Alfred A. Knopf, New York, , pp. ***** Editor's Note to The Changing Light at Sandover. The Changing Light at Sandover, James Merrill's grandest poetic project, had a long gestation. He and David Jackson, his companion for many years, began. In James Merrill. ()—a trilogy later published in The Changing Light at Sandover ()—established Merrill as one of the leading American poets of his generation. This 17,line work presents a series of conversations held with various real and fictional persons in the spirit world by means of a Ouija board, a device that. angels, titled The Changing Light at Sandover, which dominated his later career. Although most of his published work was poetry, he also wrote essays, fiction, and plays. Life James Ingram Merrill was born in New York City to Hellen Ingram Merrill and Charles E. Merrill, founding partner of the Merrill Lynch investment firm. He had.
epic published as The Changing Light at Sandover (), documents two decades of messages dictated from otherworldly spirits during Ouija séances hosted by Merrill and his partner David Noyes Jackson. The Changing Light at Sandover is one of the longest epics in any language, and features the voices of. “James Merrill has created a poem as central to our generation as The Waste Land was to the one before.” —The New Leader “In turns comic, elegiac, and darkly prophetic, Sandover is as ambitious in scope as it is audacious in concept combining an epic intent with dramatic and lyric meanings and means. The result may be the greatest long poem an American has yet produced.”. James Merrill's monumental poem The Changing Light at Sandover has been acclaimed one of the masterpieces of postwar American literature. Robert Polito's reader's guide provides the critical companion piece to this now classic poem. The Changing Light at Sandover is vast and often dizzying, as the poet and his companion at the Ouija board, David Jackson, advance to successively higher spirit guides.
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