James Merrill’s audacious and dazzling epic poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years. Individual parts won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the entire poem, when it was collected into one volume in 1982, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is now an American classic, here in a definitive new hardcover edition that includes Voices from Sandover,...

Following the widely celebrated Collected Poems, this second volume in the series of James Merrill’s works brings us Merrill as novelist and playwright. Just as in his poems we come upon prose pieces, dramatic dialogue, and even a short play in verse, in his novels and plays we find the rhythms of his poetry reflected and given new form.Merrill’s first novel, The Seraglio, is a daring roman à clef derived in large part from his early life as the cosmopoli...

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, the charismatic cofounder of the brokerage firm Merrill Lynch, and Hellen Ingram, a muse, ally, and antagonist throughout her son’s life. Wounded by his parents’ bitter divorce, he was the child of a broken home, looking for repair in poetry and lo...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The selected correspondence of the brilliant poet, one of the twentieth century's last great letter writers."I don't keep a journal, not after the first week," James Merrill asserted in a letter while on a trip around the world. "Letters have got to bear all the burden." A vivacious correspondent, whether abroad, where avid curiosity and fond memory frequently took him, or at home, he wrote eagerly and often, to ...

James Merrill: Knowing Innocence reevaluates the achievement of this important poet by showing how he takes up an old paradigm – innocence – and reinvents it in response to new historical, scientific, and cultural developments including the bomb, contemporary cosmology, and the question of agency. The book covers Merrill’s full career, emphasizing the late poetry, on which there remains little commentary. Illuminating both Merrill’s relation to a tradition of literary innocence fr...

For the first time in a stand-alone edition, the acclaimed poet's classic poem about his communication with Ephraim, a guiding spirit in the Other World, is here introduced and annotated by poet and Merrill scholar Stephen Yenser."The Book of Ephraim," which first appeared as the final poem in James Merrill's Pulitzer-winning volume Divine Comedies (1976), tells the story of how he and his partner David Jackson (JM and DJ as they came to be known) embarked...

This book assesses the extent to which British news organizations gave exposure and credence to different political interpretations of economics and business news in the decade before the 2008 Financial Crisis. Through the content analysis of some 1,600 news items, this study provides compelling empirical evidence to inform often theoretical debates about neoliberal assumptions in the media. In each of the three pre-2008 case studies – economic globalization, private finance and public ser...

VERSTEIGERT IM GENTLEMAN'S CLUB von CHRISTINE MERRILLUm der Vermählung mit einem stadtbekannten Lüstling zu entgehen, weiß Georgiana keinen anderen Ausweg: Sie versteigert ihre Unschuld in einem berüchtigten Herrenclub – und endet in den Armen von Frederick Challenger, dem skandalumwobenen Besitzer. Sie denkt, er will sie verführen – stattdessen hält er um ihre Hand an!DER DUKE UND DAS HAUSMÄDCHEN von ANN LETHBRIDGERose ist nur ein ...

ENTHÜLLUNG UNTERM MISTELZWEIG von CHRISTINE MERRILLDaphnes einzige Freunde sind die Katzen. Das denkt sie zumindest, bis sie den wunderbaren Charles Pallister kurz vor Heiligabend kennenlernt. Doch er ist nicht das, was er zu sein vorgibt …EIN LORD ZUM CHRISTFEST VON SOPHIA JAMESNie wieder heiraten! Da ist sich die junge Witwe Elizabeth Martin sicher. Ihre beiden Kinder halten sie schon genug auf Trab. Doch dann lädt sie ihr neuer Nac...

Enjoy a festive flirtation with three Christmas Regency romance novellas from three fantastic authors.In Unwrapped Under the Mistletoe by Christine Merrill, Charles is hired to catch supposedly light-fingered poor relation Daphne, but steals a kiss under the mistletoe! In One Night with the Earl by Sophia James, widow Elizabeth seeks refuge for herself and her young twins. Brooding Lord Grey might just provide that Christmas miracle! And in A ...

The Regency Scandal Collection from Mills & BoonIncluding the titles:Regency Scandal: Outrageous PropositionsRegency Scandal: Dangerous GamesRegency Scandal: Dissolute WaysRegency Scandal: Disreputable Secrets

WIEDERSEHEN UNTER DEM MISTELZWEIG von CHRISTINE MERRILLJack Gascoyne hat ihr einst das Herz gebrochen, als er in den Krieg zog. Jetzt ist er wieder da. Darf Lucy es riskieren, ihm zum Christfest eine zweite Chance zu geben?EINGESCHNEIT MIT EINEM WÜSTLING von LOUISE ALLENNach einem Skandal wird die junge Julia Chancellor aufs Land verbannt. Dort wird sie eingeschneit – ausgerechnet mit dem Wüstling Giles Dorrowby, Viscount Missenden!