James Merrill once called his poetic works 'chronicles of love and loss', and in twenty books written over four decades he used the details of his life - comic and haunting, exotic and domestic - to shape a compelling, sometimes intensely moving, personal portrait. Sophisticated, witty and ironic, his poetry also engages passionately with topical issues - war, terrorism, political corruption, AIDS, climate change and the destruction of nature. An admirer of Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop and W. H. Auden, Merrill, like them, has left a legacy that will speak to readers for years to come.
| ISBN: | 9781841598086 |
| Publication date: | 2nd March 2017 |
| Author: | James Merrill |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Everyman's Library Pocket Poets |
| Genres: |
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Poetry by individual poets Narrative theme: Interior life Narrative theme: Social issues |