James Merrill : postmodern magus : myth and poetics / Evans Lansing Smith.

In this meticulously researched, carefully argued work, Evans Lansing Smith argues that the nekyia, the circular Homeric narrative describing the descent into the underworld and reemergence in the same or similar place, confers shape and significance upon the entirety of James Merrill's poetry....

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Smith, Evans Lansing, 1950- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2008.
Series:	UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Merrill, James Ingram > Criticism and interpretation. Merrill, James, > 1926-1995 Criticism, interpretation, etc.