Just coming back to this thread to mention a very good essay on Merrill by Katy Evans-Bush. It is in her book
Forgive the Language, which is a collection of essays well worth buying. Here's a snippet:
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The artist he reminds me of the most is Mozart, the way he weaves his themes together with comic or grotesque touches, and little homilies, and then all of a sudden you are plunged into a moment of the most sublime, almost unbearable purity, it's like eternity. (Speaking of which, he remarked of Blake's famous line that 'you don't see eternity except in the grain of sand'.)
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