James Merrill: Life and Art by Langdon Hammer

James Merrill: Life and Art

Everyman's Library Pocket Poets

Langdon Hammer

944 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography lgbtqia+ literary poetry emotional reflective slow-paced

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Langdon Hammer has given us the first biography of the poet James Merrill (1926-95), whose life is surely one of the most fascinating in American literature. Merrill was born to high privilege and high expectations as the son of Charles Merrill, t...

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