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The Changing Light at Sandover

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American literature

  • John Smith: Virginia
    In American literature: New directions

    In The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), James Merrill, previously a polished lyric poet, made his mandarin style the vehicle of a lighthearted personal epic, in which he, with the help of a Ouija board, called up the shades of all his dead friends, including the…

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discussed in biography

  • In James Merrill

    … (1980)—a trilogy later published in The Changing Light at Sandover (1982)—established Merrill as one of the leading American poets of his generation. This 17,000-line work presents a series of conversations held with various real and fictional persons in the spirit world by means of a Ouija board, a device that…

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