- 1. Backward-Looking Figures: A Recent Poem through Some Early Work
- 2. Breaking And Entering: The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace, Water Street, and The (Diblos) Notebook
- 3. Double Burdens: Nights and Days
- 4. At the Web’s Heart: The Fire Screen and Braving the Elements
- 5. The Fullness of Time: The Book of Ephraim
- 6. The Nature of Mind: Mirabell’s Books of Number
- 7. The Names of God: Scripts for the Pageant and “Coda: The Higher Keys”
- 8. A Shutter Opens: Late Settings and The Image Maker
- Works By James Merrill
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index

The Consuming Myth
The Work of James Merrill
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$90.00 • £78.95 • €81.95
ISBN 9780674166158
Publication Date: 01/01/1987