This Composite Voice - The Role of W.B. Yeats in James Merrill's Poetry

List of contents

INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE Prelude: Merrillian Influence, Kimon Friar, and Yeats; Yeats in Merrill’s Early Poems: Moving from Floodedness to Struggle CHAPTER TWO Prelude: First Readings of Yeats’s A Vision; Braving the Fire: Postures of Nonchalance in the Early Ouija Board Poems; Interlude: Returning to Yeats’s A Vision Merrill’s Dialogues of Self and Soul CHAPTER THREE Prelude: Reading Yeats’s Essays and Introductions; Observing Yeats through Merrill’s Changing Lights I. Yeats in “Ephraim”: The Master’s Ghostly Presence II. Yeats in Mirabell: Parody and Affiliation III. Yeats in Scripts: Abjection and Apotheosis IV. Yeats in “The Higher Keys”: Fading into Mastery CHAPTER FOUR A Haunted Mastery: Yeats after Sandover; Coda: Yeats’s Merrill, Merrill’s Bloom

About the author

Mark A. Bauer

Summary

Readers have long noted affinities and contrasts between Merrill and Yeats. This examination of the nature of this lifelong poetic relationship draws on both little-known material and an examination of Merrill's better-known writing to establish the ways in which Merrill contends with the older poet's haunting personality and poetic accomplishment.

Product details

• Authors: Mark A. Bauer, Bauer Mark A.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780415966375
• ISBN: 978-0-415-96637-5
• No. of pages: 290
• Weight: 566 g
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets