James Merrill

Furtherreading

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BOOKS

• Blasing, Mutlu Konuk, Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry: O'Hara, Bishop, Ashbery, and Merrill, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
• Bloom, Harold, editor, James Merrill, Chelsea House (New York, NY), 1985.
• Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 2, 1974, Volume 3, 1975, Volume 6, 1976, Volume 8, 1978, Volume 13, 1980, Volume 18, 1981, Volume 34, 1988, Volume 91, 1996.
• Dickey, James, Babel to Byzantium, Farrar, Straus (New York, NY), 1968.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1980.
• Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook 1985, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1986.
• Kalstone, David, Five Temperaments: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1977.
• Lehman, David, and Charles Berger, editors, James Merrill: Essays in Criticism, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1982.
• Lurie, Alison, Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson, Viking (New York, NY), 2001.
• Merrill, James, A Different Person: A Memoir, Knopf (New York, NY), 1993.
• Polito, Robert, A Reader's Guide to James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover, University of Michigan Press, 1994.
• Rotella, Guy L., editor, Critical Essays on James Merrill, G. K. Hall, 1996.
• White, Edmund, Loss within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS, University of Wisconsin Press (Madison, WI), 2001.
• Yenser, Stephen,The Consuming Myth: The Work of James Merrill, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1987.

PERIODICALS

• Advocate, May 8, 2001, David Bahr, review of Collected Poems, p. 74.
• American Poetry Review, September-October, 1979.
• American Spectator, January, 1994, p. 64.
• Atlantic Monthly, March, 1973; October, 1980.
• Book, May, 2001, Stephen Whited, review of Collected Poems, p. 78.
• Booklist, February 1, 2001, Donna Seaman, review of Collected Poems, p. 1035.
• Chicago Tribune Book World, December 17, 1978; April 24, 1983.
• Kenyon Review, winter, 1997, Rachel Hadas, "'We Both Knew This Place': Reflections on the Art of James Merrill," p. 134; spring, 1998, Rachel Hadas, "James Merrill's Early Work: A Revaluation," p. 177.
• Lambda Book Report, April, 2001, David Rosen, "Necessary Angel," p. 16.
• Los Angeles Times Book Review, February 13, 1983.
• Midwest Quarterly, spring, 2001, Kathryn Jacobs, "How Not to Shed Tears, and What to Do, Instead: James Merrill," p. 334.
• New Leader, December 4, 1978; June 5, 1995, Phoebe Pettingell, review of A Scattering of Salts, p. 20.
• New Republic, June 5, 1976; November 20, 1976; July 26, 1980; June 5, 1995; p. 38; May 7, 2001, Adam Kirsch, "All That Glitters," p. 40.
• Newsweek, February 28, 1983; March 5, 2001, David Gates, "Jimmy of the Spirits: James Merrill Was Notorious for an Epic 'Dictated' via a Ouija Board. Now His Collected Poems and Memoirs by His Friends Suggest He Was a Tad More Complicated," p. 56.
• New Yorker, March 27, 1995, p. 49; March 12, 2000, Helen Vendler, "James Merrill: Collected Poems," p. 100.
• New York Review of Books, May 6, 1971; September 20, 1973; March 18, 1976; December 21, 1978; May 3, 1979; February 21, 1982; November 4, 1993, p. 31; January 13, 1994, p. 15; May 11, 1995, p. 46.
• New York Times, January 29, 1983; May 29, 1985; September 15, 1993; March 14, 2001, Mel Gussow, "An Anthology and Conferences Celebrate James Merrill's Work," p. E1, and "A Year for Reconnecting with the Spirit of a Departed Poet," p. B10.
• New York Times Book Review, September 24, 1972; March 21, 1976; April 4, 1976; April 22, 1977, Herbert Mitgang, "Publishing: A Touch of the Pulitzer"; April 29, 1979, Robert B. Shaw, "James Merrill and the Ouija Board"; June 15, 1980, Denis Donoghue, "What the Ouija Board Said"; March 13, 1983; November 12, 1984; September 1, 1985, Petet Stitt, "Poets Witty and Elegiac"; February 15, 1987, Helen Benedict, "In Short"; November 12, 1989, Carolyn Kizer, "Necessities of Life and Death"; December 12, 1993, Brigitte Weeks, "How James Merrill Came of Age"; March 26, 1995, W. S. Merwin, "The End of More than a Book," p. 3; May 22, 1995; February 22, 2001, Janet Maslin, "Bound by the Spirit World as They Drifted Apart"; March 4, 2001, Daniel Mendelsohn, "A Poet of Love and Loss," p. 16.
• Partisan Review, winter, 1967.
• Perspective, spring, 1967.
• Poetry, June, 1973; October, 1976; December, 1979; September, 1995, p. 354.
• Publishers Weekly, February 27, 1995, p. 98.
• San Francisco Chronicle, March 11, 2001, David Wiegand, "How a Ouija Board Called Forth a Collective Spirit," p. 3.
• Saturday Review, December 2, 1972.
• Shenandoah, summer, 1976; fall, 1976.
• Time, April 26, 1976; June 25, 1979.
• Times Literary Supplement, September 29, 1972; October 28, 1977; January 18, 1980; May 22, 1987; December 2, 1988; December 31, 1993, p. 20; January 17, 1997, Stephen Burt, review of Selected Poems, p. 22.
• Village Voice, December 21, 1993.
• Village Voice Literary Supplement, March, 1983.
• Wall Street Journal, April 13, 2001, Ben Downing, "Poetry and Parlor Tricks," p. 10.
• Washington Post Book World, July 6, 1980; March 27, 1983; July 28, 1985; December 14, 1986.
• Yale Review, winter, 1971; spring, 1975; January, 1994, p. 161; October, 1995, p. 144.

OTHER

• Academy of American Poets, http://www.poets.org/ (September 26, 2001), "James Merrill."
• Modern American Poetry, http://www.english.uiuc.edu/ (September 26, 2001), Ann T. Keene, "James Merrill's Life," Alan Nadel, "Replacing the Waste Land—James Merrill's Quest for Transcendent Authority," James Merrill, "Merrill: On Puns ," and "Merrill in Correspondence."

OBITUARIES

• Los Angeles Times, February 8, 1995, pp. A3, A13.
• New Republic, March 6, 1995, p. 46.
• Newsweek, February 20, 1995, p. 76.
• New York Times, February 7, 1995.
• Poetry, September, 1995, p. 311.
• Time, February 20, 1995, p. 81.
• Times (London), February 15, 1995, p. 19.