Seriously funny: James Merrill's puns
JAMES MERRILL’S FRIEND W. H. AUDEN wrote that ‘Good poets have a weakness for bad puns’. A punster himself, Auden needed it to be true. Most of his puns are of the blink-and-you’ll-miss-it kind. At the end of ‘In Praise of Limestone’, he ironically sees ‘faultless love’ in a limestone landscape; in...
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Oxford University Press
2018
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