(not including all book reviews)
2008
Reece, Spencer. "Remembering James Merrill." Boulevard. 22: 2-3. (Spring 2007): 1-31.
Materer, Timothy. "James Merrill's Late Poetry:
AIDS and the 'Stripping Process.'"
Arizona
Quarterly. 64:2 (Summer 2008): 123-145.
Smith, Evans Lansing. James Merrill, Postmodern Magus:
Myth and Poetics.
Iowa
City: U of Iowa Press, 2008.
2007
Gwiazda, Piotr K. James Merrill and W. H. Auden: Homosexuality and Poetic Influence.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Sastri, Reena. James Merrill: Knowing Innocence. New York & London: Routledge, 2007.
2006
Nickowitz, Peter. Rhetoric and Sexuality: The Poetry of
Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop,
and James Merrill. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Yankee, Bill. "James Merrill at the Gym." Poetry. 190:4 (Jul/Aug 2007): 343, 359.
Keniston, Ann. "Ghostly Projections : James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover."
Overheard Voices: Address and Subjectivity in Postmodern American Poetry. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Mariani, Andrea. "'Orbits of Power': Gli anelli in
James Merrill." Abito e Identitˆ:
Ricerche di storia letteraria e culturale. Ed. Cristina Giorcelli. Palma, Spain: Ila Palma, 2006.
Materer, Timothy: "James Merrill's Polyphonic Muse." Contemporary Literature. 47:2 (Summer 2006): 207-35.
2005
Hammer, Langdon. "Life into art: James Merrill's '16.ix.65.'" Literary Imagination. 7:3 (2005): 278-85.
Ingram, Claudia. "'Fission and Fusion Both Liberate Energy': James Merrill, Jorie
Graham, and the Metaphoric Imagination." Twentieth-Century Literature. 51.2 (Summer 2005): 142-78.
Lundquist, Sara. "An Aesthetics of Enclosure: James Merrill's Inner Rooms." English Studies in Canada.
31:1 (2005): 27-49.
Materer, Timothy. "Mirrored Lives: Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill." Twentieth-Century Literature. 51.2
(Summer 2005): 179-205.
2004
Carson, Luke. "James
Merrill's Manners and Elizabeth Bishop's Dismay."
Twentieth-Century
Literature. 50.2 (2004): 167-91.
Farrell, Frank B. ÒJames Merrill
and the Making of Literature.Ó
Why
Does Literature Matter? Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.
Forbes, Deborah. "Agnostic Sincerity: The Poet as Observer in the Work of Keats,
Bishop, and Merrill." Sincerity's Shadow:
Self-Consciousness in British Romantic
and Mid-Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Hammer, Langdon. "Merrill and Stevens." Wallace Stevens Journal. 28.2 (Fall 2004): 295-302.
McCourt, James. "Two
Jims." Queer Street: Rise and Fall of an American Culture,
1947-1984: Excursions in the Mind of the Life. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.
MacGowan, Christopher J. ÒJames
Merrill.Ó Twentieth-Century American Poetry.
Maldon,
MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
McHale, Brian. ÒAngels in America: James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover.Ó
The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems.
Tucaloosa:
University of Alabama Press, 2004.
Rotella, Guy. "Losing the
Marbles" and "Bronze." Castings: Monuments
and
Monumentality in Poems by Elizabeth Bishop,
Robert
Lowell, James Merrill, Derek Walcott, and Seamus Heaney.
Nashville:
Vanderbilt University Press, 2004.
Sastri, Reena. "A Scattering
of Salts: Merrill's Temporal Innocence."
Twentieth-Century
Literature. 50.3 (Fall 2004): 239-67.
2003
Bauer, Mark. This Composite Voice: The Role of
W.B. Yeats in James Merrill's Poetry.
New York:
Routledge, 2003.
Halpern, Nick. Everyday and Prophetic: The Poetry
of Lowell, Ammons,
Merrill,
and Rich. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
Yu, Christopher. ÒImbued with
Otherness: Merrill's Mock-Epics of Desire.Ó
Nothing
to Admire: The Politics of Poetic Satire from Dryden to Merrill.
New York
: Oxford University Press, 2003.
2002
Bauer, Mark. ÒBetween: Lives: James Merrill Reading YeatsÕs Prose.Ó Contemporary
Literature. 43.1 (2002): 85-119
Breslin, Paul. ÒClosest Necessities: James MerrillÕs Poetics of Reticence.Ó Poetry.
179.6 (2002): 343-352.
Hahn, Robert. ÒNot So Distant Vistas: Some Versions of the Mediterranean in American
Poetry.Ó Poetry International. 6 (2002): 150-8.
Keeley, Edmund. ÒCavafy and His Heirs in America.Ó Iowa Review. 32.3 (2002): 26-
39.
Materer, Timothy. ÒConfession and Autobiography in James MerrillÕs Early Poetry.Ó
Twentieth-Century Literature. 48.2 (2002): 150-73.
Trousdale, Rachel. "Transformations of Memory: Marcel Proust, Vladimir Nabokov and James Merrill."
Nabokov's World, Volume 2 : Reading Nabokov. (Studies in Russian & Eastern European History).
Ed. Jane Grayson et. al. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
2001
Berger, James. ÒThe Necessary Angel and A Different Person: Defending the Life of
Poetry.Ó Wallace Stevens Journal. 25.1 (2001) 64-73.
Burt, Stephen. ÒBecoming Literature: On James MerrillÕs Poetry of Autobiography and
Social Comedy.Ó Boston Review. 26.3-4 (2001): 34-7.
Gurganus, Alan. ÒJames Merrill. ÓLoss within Loss: Artists in
the Age of
AIDS.
Ed. Edmund White. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.
Gwiazda, Piotr. ÒViews from the Rosebrick Manor: Poetic Authority in James MerrillÕs
The Changing Light at Sandover.Ó Texas
Studies in Literature and Language.
43.4 (2001): 418-39.
Jacobs, Kathryn. ÒHow Not to Shed Tears, and What to Do Instead: James Merrill.Ó
Midwest Quarterly. 42.3 (2001): 334-45.
Lurie, Alison. Familiar Spirits: A Memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson. New
York: Viking, 2001.
Materer, Timothy. ÒStevens as King of the Ghosts: James Merrill and Wallace Stevens.Ó
Wallace Stevens Journal. 25.1 (2001): 74-84.
McCabe, Susan. ÒBlue Sky Laws and Poetic Inequivalence: Wallace Stevens and James
Merrill.Ó Wallace Stevens Journal. 25.1 (2001): 52-63.
McClatchy, J. D. ÒTwo Deaths, Two Lives.Ó Loss within Loss: Artists in the
Age of
AIDS. Ed. Edmund White. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.
Moramarco, Fred, ÒStevens,
Rich, and Merrill: An Introduction.Ó Wallace Stevens Journal.
25.1 (Spring 2001): 3-6.
Sandy, Stephen. ÒSalt of the Sky: James MerrillÕs Poetry.Ó Harvard Review. 21 (2001):
69-78.
Smith, Evans Lansing. ÒMerrillÕs Lost in Translation.Ó The Explicator. 59.3 (2001):
156-9.
OÕLeary, Peter. ÒTransfigurations: Collected Poems.Ó Chicago Review. 47.2 (2001):
71-74.
Ormsby, Eric. ÒGilded Totems.Ó Parnassus. 26.1 (2001): 9-25.
Vendler, Helen. ÒArdor and Artifice: The Mozartian Touch of a Master Poet.Ó The New
Yorker. 77.3 (2001): 100-4.
2000
Hadas, Rachel. Merrill, Cavafy, Poems and Dreams. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan, 2000.
Materer, Timothy. James MerrillÕs Apocalypse. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.
Johnston, Devin. ÒResistance to the Message: James MerrillÕs Occult Epic.Ó
Contemporary Literature 41.1 (2000): 87-116.
Gwiazda, Piotr. ÒMerrillÕs ÔThe Emerald.ÕÓ The Explicator 58. 3 (2000): 164.
1999
Hadas, Rachel. ÒFrom Stage Set to Heirloom: Greece in the Work of James Merrill.Ó
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics. 6.3 (1999): 1-19.
McClatchy, J.D. ÒJames MerrillÕs Inner Room.Ó Raritan: A Quarterly Review. 19.1
(1999): 1-21.
1998
Hadas, Rachel. ÒJames MerrillÕs Early Work: A Revaluation.Ó The Kenyon Review.
20.2 (1998): 177-84.
Kearful, Frank J. ÒÕThe child awake and wearied ofÕ: James Merrill and the Art of the
Villanelle.Ó Zum Begriff der Imagination in Dichung and Dichtungstheorie. Trier:
Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (1998): 271-87.
McClatchy, J.D. ÒBraving the Elements.Ó Twenty Questions. New York: Columbia
University Press. (1998): 155-169.
Westover, Jeff. ÒEros and Psyche: The View ÔFrom the Cupola.ÕÓ Classical and Modern
Literature: A Quarterly. 18.4 (1998): 303-28.
1997
Adams, Don. James MerrillÕs Poetic Quest. Westport: Greenwood, 1997.
Donaldson, Jeffrey. ÒThe Company Poets Keep: Allusion, Echo, and the Question of
Who is Listening in W.H. Auden and James Merrill.Ó Contemporary Literature. 38.2 (1997): 307-24.
Hadas, Rachel. ÒÕWe both knew this placeÕ: Reflections on the Art of James Merrill.Ó
The Kenyon Review. 19.1 (1997): 134-44.
Smith, Evans Lansing. ÒJames
Merrill.Ó Figuring Poesis : A Mythical
Geometry
of Postmodernism. New York:
Peter Lang, 1997.
1996
Adams, Don. ÒHeroes without Name or Origin: James MerrillÕs Poetry of Loss.Ó Notes
On Contemporary Literature. 26.2-4 (1996).
Adams, Don. ÒMerrillÕs ÔA Prism.ÕÓ The Explicator. 54.3 (1996): 185-87.
Gery, John. ÒThe Ambiguous Paradise in MerrillÕs The Changing Light at Sandover.Ó
In Nuclear Annihilation and Contemporary American Poetry. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press, 1996.
Rotella, Guy. Critical Essays on James Merrill. New York: G.K. Hall, 1996.
Essays in Rotella:
Rotella, Guy. Introduction.
Van Duyn, Mona. ÒThe Country of a Thousand Years of Peace: ÔSunbursts, Garlands,
Creatures, Men.Õ"
Kalstone, David. ÒNights and Days.Ó
Hollander, John. ÒThe Fire Screen.Ó
Yenser, Stephen. ÒBraving the Elements: Feux d'Artifice.Ó
Kalstone, David. ÒDivine Comedies: Evenings at the Ouija Board.Ó
Bromwich, David.Ó Mirabell: Answer, Heavenly Muse, Yes or NoÓ
Vendler, Helen. ÒLate Settings: Fears and FarewellsÓ
Merwin, W. S. ÒA Scattering of Salts: The End of More Than Just a Book.Ó
Yenser, Stephen. ÒOn Lost in Translation.Ó
Blasing, Mutlu Konuk. ÒRethinking Models of Literary Change: The Case of
James Merrill.Ó
Keller, Lynn. Ò 'I knew / That life was fiction in disguise': Merrill's Divergence
from Auden and Modernism.
Selinger, Eric Murphy. ÒJames Merrill's Masks of Eros, Masques of LoveÓ
Zimmerman, Lee.Ó Against Apocalypse: Politics and James Merrill's The Changing
Light at SandoverÓ
Mariani, Andrea. ÒFrom Polylinguism to Metalinguism: Dante's Language in Merrill's
Trilogy.Ó
Westover, Jeff. ÒWriting on the (Sur)face of the Past: Convivial Visions and
Revisions in the Poetry of James Merrill.Ó
McClatchy, J. D. Braving the Elements.
Smith, Evans Lansing. ÒMerrillÕs ÔThe Changing Light at Sandover.ÕÓ The Explicator.
55.1 (1996): 51-3.
Smith, Evans Lansing. ÒThe Hermetic Tradition in James MerrillÕs The Changing Light
at Sandover.Ó Cauda Pavonis: Studies in Hermeticism. 15.1 (1996): 7-12.
Yenser, Stephen. ÒJames Merrill: Four Letters to Stephen Yenser.Ó Poetry. 66.6 (1996):
324-30.
1995
Materer, Timothy. ÒJames MerrillÕs Romantic UnconsciousÓ and ÒConclusion.Ó
In Modernist Alchemy: Poetry and the Occult. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995.
Meyer, Stephen, Helen Vendler, Rachel Hadas, Richard Kenney and Stephen Yenser.
ÒJames Merrill: A Life in Writing.Ó Southwest Review. 80.2-3 (1995): 159-85.
Rotella, Guy. ÒJames MerrillÕs Poetry of Convalescence.Ó Contemporary Literature.
36.1 (1995): 35-57.
White, Heather. ÒAn Interview with James Merrill.Ó Ploughshares. 21.4 (1995): 190-95.
Anon. ÒJames Merrill: His Poetry and the Age.Ó Southwest Review. 80.2-3 (1995): 186-
204.
1994
Dolan, Frederick M. Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics. Ithaca;
Cornell University Press, 1994.
Howard, Richard. ÒSelf-Portraits.Ó Raritan – A Quarterly Review. 14.2 (1994): 135-46.
Polito, Robert. A Guide to James MerrillÕs The Changing Light at Sandover.Ó Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Essays in Polito:
Bloom, Harold. ÒFrom ÔThe YearÕs Books.ÕÓ
Vendler, Helen. ÒDivine Comedies.Ó
Yenser, Stephen. ÒDantean Andante.Ó
Gunn, Thom. ÒA Heroic Enterprise.Ó
Pettingell, Phoebe. ÒVoices from the Atom.Ó
Vendler, Helen. ÒMirabell: Books of Number.Ó
Molesworth, Charles. ÒScripts for the Pageant.Ó
Donoghue, Denis. ÒWhat the Ouija Board Said.Ó
Clairborne Park, Clara. ÒWhere The Waste Land Ends.Ó
Lehmna, David. ÒMerrillÕs Celestial Comedy.Ó
Flint, R.W. ÒMetamorphic Magician.Ó
Harrington, Michael. ÒParadise or Disintegration.Ó
Mazzocco, Robert. ÒThe Right Stuff.Ó
Stokes, Geoffrey. ÒThe Red Eye of God: James MerrillÕs Reasons to Believe.Ó
Selinger, Eric Murphy. ÒJames MerrillÕs Masks of Eros, Masques of Love.Ó
Contemporary Literature. 35.1 (1994): 30-65.
Sword, Helen. ÒJames Merrill, Sylvia Plath, and the Poetics of Ouija.Ó American
Literature. 66.3 (1994): 553-72.
1993
Buckley, C.A. ÒQuantum Physics and the Ouija-Board: James MerrillÕs Holistic World
View.Ó Mosaic. 26.2 (1993): 39-61.
Lawson, D.S. ÒJames Merrill (1926-).Ó Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-
Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson and Gregory W. Bredbeck. Westport: Greenwood, 1993.
Mariani, Andrea. ÒJames Merrill: A Postmodern Poet? Yes & No (With a New Poem by
James Merrill).Ó RSA Journal: Rivista di Studi-Nord Americani. 4 (1993): 31-56.
Shetley, Vernon. After the Death of Poetry: Poetry and Audience in Contemporary
America. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
Shoptaw, John. ÒJames Merrill and John Ashbery.Ó The Columbia History of American
Poetry. Ed. Jay Parini and Brett C. Millier. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
1992
Buckley, C.A. ÒExploring The Changing Light at Sandover: An Interview with James
Merrill.Ó Twentieth Century Literature. 38.4 (1992): 415-35.
Mehlman, Jeffrey. ÒMerrillÕs Valery: An Erotics of Translation.Ó Rethinking
Translation: Discourse, Subjectivity, Ideology. Ed. Lawrence Venuti. London: Routledge, 1992.
Spears, Monroe K. ÒThe Prose of
Two Poets: Anthony Hecht and James
Merrill.Ó
Countries of the Mind : Literary Explorations.
Columbia :
University of Missouri Press, 1992.
1991
Weinstein, Arnold. ÒThe Break-Up of the City and the Break-Down of Narrative:
BaudelaireÕs ÔLe CygneÕ and James MerrillÕs ÔUrban Convalescence.ÕÓ
City Images: Perspectives from Literature, Philosophy and Film.
Ed. Mary Ann Caws. New York: Gordon & Breach, 1991.
1990
Blasing, Mutlu Konuk. ÒRethinking Models of Literary Change: The Case of James
Merrill.Ó American Literary History. 2.2 (1990): 299-317.
Materer, Timothy. ÒThe Error of His Ways: James Merrill and the Fall into Myth.Ó
American Poetry. 7.3 (1990): 64-86.
1989
Baird, James. ÒJames MerrillÕs Sound of Feeling: Language and Music.Ó Southwest
Review. 74.3 (1989): 361-377.
Kuberski, Philip. ÒThe Metaphysics of Postmodern Death: MailerÕs ÔAncient EveningsÕ
and MerrillÕs The Changing Light at Sandover.Ó ELH. 56.1(1989): 229-254.
Zimmerman, Lee. ÒAgainst Apocalypse: Politics and James MerrillÕs The Changing
Light at Sandover.Ó Contemporary Literature. 30.3 (1989): 370-386.
1988
Humphries, Jefferson. "The Voice within the Mirror: The Haunted Poetry of James Merrill."
boundary 2. 15.3 (Spring, 1988): 173-194
Materer, Timothy. ÒDeath and Alchemical Transformation in James MerrillÕs The
Changing Light at Sandover.Ó Contemporary Literature. 29.1 (1988): 82-14.
Thompson, Ruth. ÒMerrillÕs ÔBronze.ÕÓ The Explicator. 47.1 (1988): 48-50.
1987
Donaldson, Jeffery. ÒGoing Down in History: Richard HowardÕs ÔUntitled SubjectsÕ and
James MerrillÕs The Changing Light at Sandover.Ó Salmagundi. 76-77 (1987) 175-202.
Yenser, Stephen. The Consuming Myth: The Work of James Merrill. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1987.
1986
Macdonald, D.L. ÒMerrill and Freud: The Psychopathology of Eternal Life.Ó Mosaic.
19.4 (1986): 159-172.
1985
Bloom, Harold, ed. James Merrill. New York: Chelsea, 1985.
Essays in Bloom:
Bloom, Harold. ÒIntroduction.Ó
Howard, Richard. ÒJames Merrill.Ó
Saez, Richard. ÒJames MerrillÕs Oedipal Fire.Ó
Kalstone, David. ÒTransparent Things.Ó
Vendler, Helen. ÒJames Merrill.Ó
Yenser, Stephen. ÒThe Fullness of Time: James MerrillÕs Book of Ephraim.Ó
Hollander, John. ÒMirror.Ó
McClatchy, J.D. ÒMonsters Wrapped in Silk: The Country of a Thousand Years of
Peace.Ó
Lehman, David. ÒElemental Bravery: The Unity of James MerrillÕs Poetry.Ó
Moffett, Judith. ÒThe Changing Light at Sandover.Ó
Berger, Charles. ÒMirabell: Conservative Epic.Ó
Brisman, Leslie. ÒMerrillÕs Yeats.Ó
1984
Bawer, Bruce. ÒA Summoning of Spirits: James Merrill and Sandover.Ó The New
Criterion. 2.10 (1984): 35-42.
Moffett, Judith. James Merrill: An Introduction to the Poetry. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1984.
1983
Lehman, David and Charles Berger, Ed. James Merrill: Essays in Criticism. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1983.
Essays in Lehman and Berger:
Berger, Charles. ÒMerrill and Pynchon: Our Apocalyptic Scribes.Ó
Jackson, David. ÒLending a Hand.Ó
Jacoff, Rachel. ÒMerrill and Dante.Ó
Kalstone, David. ÒPersisting Figures: The PoetÕs Story and How We Read It.Ó
Lehman, David. ÒElemental Bravery: The Unity of James MerrillÕs Poetry.Ó
McClatchy, J.D. ÒOn Water Street.Ó
Sacks, Peter. ÒThe Divine Translation: Elegiac Aspects of The Changing Light at
Sandover.Ó
Saez, Richard. ÒÕAt the Salon LevelÕ: MerrillÕs Apocalyptic Epic.Ó
Schulman, Samuel E. ÒLyric Knowledge in The Fire Screen and Braving the
Elements.Ó
Spiegelman, Willard. ÒBreaking the Mirror: Interruption in MerrillÕs Trilogy.Ó
Yenser, Stephen. ÒThe Names of God: Scripts for the Pageant.Ó
White, Edmund. ÒThe Inverted Type: Homosexuality as a Theme in James MerrillÕs
Prophetic Books.Ó Literary Visions of Homosexuality. Ed. Stuart Kellogg. New York: Haworth, 1983.
Hagstrom, Jack W.C. and George Bixby, comp. James Merrill: A Bibliographical
Checklist. Ossining: American Book Collector, 4.6 (1983): 34-37.
1982
Labrie, Ross. James Merrill. Boston: Twayne, 1982.
Labrie, Ross. ÒJames Merrill at Home: An Interview.Ó Arizona Quarterly. 38.1 (1982):
19-36.
McClatchy, J.D. ÒMonsters Wrapped in Silk: James MerrillÕs Country of a Thousand
Years of Peace.Ó Contemporary Poetry: A Journal of Criticism. 4.4 (1982): 1-30.
1980
Moffett, Judith. ÒÕI Have Received from Whom I Do Not Know / These Letters. Show
Me, Light, If They Make Sense.ÕÓ Shenandoah. 31.2 (1980): 35-74.
Von Hallberg, Robert. ÒJames Merrill: ÔRevealing by Obscuring.ÕÓ Contemporary
Literature. 21 (1980): 549-71.
1979
Bromwich, David. ÒAnswer, Heavenly Muse, Yes or No.Ó Hudson Review. 32 (1979):
455-60.
McClatchy, J.D. ÒDJ: A Conversation with David Jackson.Ó Shenandoah. 30.4 (1979):
23-44.
Moffett, Judith. ÒWhat Is Truth?Ó American Poetry Review. 8.6 (1979): 12-16.
Rothenberg, Albert. Chapters 2-4. In The Emerging Goddess: The Creative Process in
Art, Science and Other Fields. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979.
Vendler, Helen. ÒJames MerrillÕs Myth: An Interview.Ó New York Review of Books. 3
(1979): 12-13.
White, Edmund. ÒOn James Merrill.Ó American Poetry Review. 8.5 (1979): 9-11.
1977
Kalstone, David. Five Temperaments: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill,
Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
1974
Saez, Richard. ÒJames MerrillÕs Oedipal Fire.Ó Parnassus: Poetry in Review. 3.1
(1974): 154-84.
1968
Brown, Ashley. ÒAn Interview with James Merrill.Ó Shenandoah. 19.4 (1968): 3-15.
Sheehan, Donald. ÒAn Interview with James Merrill.Ó Wisconsin Studies in
Contemporary Literature. 9.1 (1968): 1-14.