Yenser suggests that Merrill's special power springs in part from transactions between evidently opposing perceptions. On the one hand--as the result of some poetic version of what physicists call "pair production"--whatever Merrill looks at hard yields its contraries. All about him, and within him too, he discovers duality and division. On the other hand, he is profoundly aware of the interconnectedness of things, whether they be his life and his art (which we might think of as aspects of his work), or humanity and nature, or good and evil. It is out of quarrels with ourselves that we make poetry, Yeats observed; and it is in striving to accommodate intuitions of both difference and identity that Merrill has fashioned his distinctive manner.
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Yenser suggests that Merrill's special power springs in part from transactions between evidently opposing perceptions. On the one hand--as the result of some poetic version of what physicists call "pair production"--whatever Merrill looks at hard yields its contraries. All about him, and within him too, he discovers duality and division. On the other hand, he is profoundly aware of the interconnectedness of things, whether they be his life and his art (which we might think of as aspects of his work), or humanity and nature, or good and evil. It is out of quarrels with ourselves that we make poetry, Yeats observed; and it is in striving to accommodate intuitions of both difference and identity that Merrill has fashioned his distinctive manner.
Imprint | Harvard University Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | December 1987 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | 1987 |
Authors | Stephen Yenser |
Dimensions | 235 x 156 x 32mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 384 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-16615-8 |
Barcode | 9780674166158 |
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LSN | 0-674-16615-9 |