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Seriously funny: James Merrill's puns
Published 2018“…He confesses in his final letter: ‘at my worst, even in Quarantine, [I] summoned up more puns, in a sort of desperation, in one week than in any year of my life’.5 For Keats – as for Auden – a weakness for puns could also constitute a strength.…”
Journal article