Materer interprets Merrill's body of work from the perspective of his epic, The Changing Light at Sandover, and shows that in his earliest poems and in the volumes preceding The Changing Light, Merrill repeatedly expressed his fear of nuclear holocaust and his sense that some momentous revelation was near at hand. Materer demonstrates how apocalyptic motifs continued to inspire the works Late Settings, The Inner Room, and A Scattering of Salts. In these final volumes, Merrill characterizes himself as "waiting companionably for kingdom come."
James Merrill's Apocalypse is the first book to treat systematically the autobiographical novels, The Seraglio and The (Diblos) Notebook, in which Materer perceives the genesis of Merrill's themes. Making extensive use of the collection of the poet's letters, journals, and papers at Washington University, Materer's appealing and revelatory volume illuminates James Merrill's secure place in American letters at the turn of the century.
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