Migration: New and Selected Poems.(Book Review)

Harvard Review | December 1, 2005| | Copyright

Migration: New and Selected Poems by W.S. Merwin, Copper Canyon Press, 2005, $40 cloth, ISBN 1556592183.

Although W.S. Merwin has been a fixture on the literary scene since the early 1950s he has never allowed us to take him for granted. With grave formal eloquence his early poems mused through intricate syntax and impeccable rhymes but risked the bombast of the stately. Both thematically and stylistically, "Learning a Dead Language," from Green With Beasts (1956), defines the problem facing the poet coming of age in the era of late Eliot and early Lowell and Wilbur: ...

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