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The Heart of Merrill’s Letters


  His heart was one of those which most enamor us, Wax to receive and marble to retain. He was a lover of the good old school, Who still become more constant as they cool. —Byron, Beppo (1817)   For a poet as dazzlingly visual as James Merrill, nurtured on Wallace Stevens no less than […]

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