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Scenes of Childhood. By James Merrill. JSTOR and the Poetry Foundation are collaborating to digitize, preserve, and extend access to Poetry. Source: Poetry (July 1960) Browse all issues back to 1912.
Scenes of Childhood. POETRY. FOUNDED IN 19I2 BY HARRIET MONROE. VOLUME XCVI NUMBER 4. JULY 1960. JAMES MERRILL. SCENES OF CHILDHOOD. For Claude Fredericks. My mother's lamp once out, I press a different switch: A field within the dim White screen ignites, Vibrating to the rapt. Mechanical racket. Of a real noon field's Crickets and gnats. I95.
Praised for his stylish elegance, moral sensibilities, and transformation of autobiographical moments into deep and complex meditations, Merrill’s work spans genres—including plays and prose—but the bulk of his artistic expression can be found in his poetry.
The cover of The Changing Light at Sandover, a 560-page epic poem published in 1982, shows the ballroom of "The Orchard," James Merrill's childhood home in The Hamptons in the 1930s. Since his death, Merrill's work has been anthologized in three divisions: Collected Poems , Collected Prose , and Collected Novels and Plays .
Born into a New York family of extraordinary privilege—his father was the cofounder of Merrill-Lynch—Merrill grew up on a grand estate and enjoyed many of the luxuries of that station. His early life was haunted by his parents’ (quite public) divorce.
May 14, 2015 · A biography of James Merrill looks at the work that grew from his life, and at his literary collaboration with a longtime partner.
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Scenes of Childhood. By Reena Sastri. Book James Merrill. Click here to navigate to parent product. Edition 1st Edition. First Published 2007. Imprint Routledge ...
