...Timothy Materer Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 Ul Confession and Autobiography in James Merrill s Early Poetry Timothy Materer You know, this guy’s got a secret, and he’s gonna keep it. —Arthur Miller to Dylan Thomas about James Merrill...

...Luke Carson Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 James Merrill’s Manners and Elizabeth Bishop’s Dismay Luke Carson -/Alison Lurie’s impression of James Merrill on first meeting him was that he “seemed both coolly detached and awkwardly self-conscious. He appeared to have read...

...Ben Leubner James Merrill: Life and Art , by Hammer Langdon , New York : Knopf , 2015 . 944 pages. Works cited Bishop Elizabeth . 2008 . Poems, Prose, and Letters . Edited by Giroux Robert Schwartz Lloyd . New York : Library of America . Dickinson...

...). In this regard, Pearson’s book can be viewed as a response of sorts to Walkowitz’s groundbreaking study, which begins with the question, “What does it mean, today, to be a British novelist, or even an English writer?” (2006, 1). Over the course of six chapters—on Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Kazuo...

...Patrick Bixby Samuel Beckett and the Politics of Aftermath , by McNaughton James . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 . 240 pages. Beckett’s Political Imagination , by Morin Emilie . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2017 . 276 pages. © 2021 Hofstra...

...Claudia Ingram Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 m “Fission and Fusion Both Liberate Energy”: James Merrill, Jorie Graham, and the Metaphoric Imagination Claudia Ingram I n July 1947 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the doomsday clock...

...Timothy Materer Copyright © Hofstra University 2005 HI Mirrored Lives: Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill Timothy Materer Life and the memory of it so compressed they turned into each other —Elizabeth Bishop (Poems 177) Jam es...

...Jesse Matz Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Modern Literary Scholarship , by Anesko Michael , Stanford University Press , 2012 . 248 pages. Oscar’s Shadow: Wilde, Homosexuality, and Modern Ireland , by Walshe Éibhear , Cork University Press , 2011...

...Nikki Skillman Copyright © Hofstra University 2013 James Merrill’s Embodied Memory James Merrill’s Embodied Memory Nikki Skillman In his mature poem “Verse for Urania,” James Merrill addresses his infant goddaughter on the day of her baptism. The aging poet observes Urania’s...

...Ajitpaul Mangat The Disarticulate: Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity , by Berger James . New York University Press , 2014 . 320 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2016 James Berger’s second book has been published in New York University Press’s Cultural...

...Liesl M. Olson Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 HI Gertrude Stein, William James, and Habit in the Shadow of War Liesl M . Olson Sow an action & you reap a habit; sow a habit & you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny...

...Chad Bennett This article reveals the formative interplay between the queer art of gossip and poetic practice in James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover , a sprawling verse trilogy composed with the unlikely assistance of a Ouija board. The poem’s extensive gossip with the dead is often...

...Thaine Stearns Copyright © Hofstra University 2002 Ml The “Woman o f N o Appearance” : James Joyce, Dora Marsden, and Competitive Pilfering Thaine Stearns I have just re-read Episode III of “Ulysses.” My dear editor go down on your knees & thank your stars...

... this reductive reflex, this essay reads James Weldon Johnson’s 1912 novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man as a serious exploration of biracial identity and experience. Specifically, the article argues that Johnson draws on early twentieth-century conceptions of femininity as a vehicle for rendering mainly...

...Linda Leavell Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 Marianne Moore, the James Family, and the Politics of Celibacy Linda Leavell ot long before she died, Marianne Moore received a letter, a form letter, requesting her signature on the following statement: “I have had...

...Mikko Tuhkanen The essay argues that, with the trope of “un/binding,” James Baldwin, most notably in “Everybody’s Protest Novel” (1949), Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), and Another Country (1962), thinks through the central ethical idea in his oeuvre: the call for “transformation...

...Daniel Hannah Copyright © Hofstra University 2007 m “Massed Ambiguity”: Fatness in Henry James s The Ivory Tower Daniel Hannah [T]hat they are each the particular individual of the particular weight being of course of the essence of my donnée. They are interesting...

...Yetta Howard Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture , by Penner James , Indiana University Press , 2011 . 297 pages. Yetta Howard Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity...

...Timothy J. Materer A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill . Edited by Hammer Langdon Yenser Stephen . New York : Knopf , 2021 . 723 pages. Copyright © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 The publisher’s blurb for A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill states that Merrill...

...Heather Cass White Work Cited Merrill James McClatchy J. D. Yenser Stephen . 2006 . The Changing Light at Sandover: With the Stage Adaptation “Voices from Sandover.” 2nd . ed. New York : Knopf . There is some question in my mind about which readers, exactly...