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Replacing The Waste Land: James Merrill's quest for transcendent authority. (The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot)
From: College Literature
Date: 19930601
Author:Nadel, Alan
An analysis of James Merrill's poem, Lost in Translation, is presented. This involves studying his move from poetry steeped in high modernism to poetics of transcendence. The poem offers a means of understanding Merrill's transfer from fabricated to mystical revelation. The analysis also includes the study of the works of T.S. Eliot, their relation and impact on the works of James Merrill.
became more refined, the feeling became more crude" (274). At the other extreme, Eliot explains here and elsewhere, the influence of the "sentimental age" valued feeling instead of or at the expense of ...
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