Thread: James Merrill
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Unread 11-08-2017, 08:41 PM
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Excuse me, Auden got better and better. I don't think he wrote a really great poem until his 30s, but the late ones have a gay sort of chatty fabulosity about them.

I think the same adjectives can be used to describe Merrill's work as well.
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