Dialectics of Deduction and Divination: Arthur Conan Doyle, James Merrill, and the Occult
This article seeks to demonstrate the heretofore unnoted influence of Arthur Conan Doyle on the poetry of James Merrill, most notably in both Merrill’s famous lyric, “Lost in Translation,” and his epic trilogy, The Changing Light at Sandover. In particular, the article seeks to show how Merrill saw...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Religion and the arts
Year: 2024, Volume: 28, Issue: 4, Pages: 444-466 |
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James Merrill
B Arthur Conan Doyle B Ouija B Poetry B Sherlock Holmes B Occult |
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| Summary: | This article seeks to demonstrate the heretofore unnoted influence of Arthur Conan Doyle on the poetry of James Merrill, most notably in both Merrill’s famous lyric, “Lost in Translation,” and his epic trilogy, The Changing Light at Sandover. In particular, the article seeks to show how Merrill saw as proximal to each other what many Conan Doyle experts and Sherlockians have seen as befuddlingly exclusive: the skepticism of Sherlock Holmes and the spiritualism of his creator, Conan Doyle. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5292 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion and the arts
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02804009 |