詹姆斯·梅利尔

詹姆斯·梅里尔（James Ingram Merrill ，1926-1995）是与阿什贝利齐名但方向迥异的美国诗人，被“新形式主义”奉为学习的楷模。1977年，他以诗集《神曲》一举获得普利策诗歌奖。 他精通传统格律，擅长双关语和用典，以拼图般的写法于细腻局部见出理性的宏构，被布鲁姆誉为“美国诗歌的莫扎特”。他的史诗《山多瓦变化的光》被《诺顿英语诗选》称为“二十世纪英国诗歌的主要成就之一”。

James Ingram Merrill was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977 for Divine Comedies. His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his early career, and the epic narrative of occult communication with spirits and angels, titled The Changing Light at Sandover, which dominated his later career. Although most of his published work was poetry, he also wrote essays, fiction, and plays.