James Merrill was born rich, as he said, “whether I liked it or not”. His father Charles, who co-founded brokerage firm Merrill Lynch, had given him a trust fund. It bought James time. Free from the need to earn, he conducted seances with the spirit world and wrote poetry. In a new biography, Langdon Hammer describes how Merrill’s transcripts of 40 years of seances morphed into the great 560-page poem, “The Changing Light at Sandover”.
詹姆斯•梅利尔(James Merrill)生来富有，正如他所说的“不管我喜欢与否”。他的父亲查尔斯(Charles)与人联合创建了券商美林(Merrill Lynch)，他给了詹姆斯一只信托基金。这给詹姆斯赢得了时间。由于不需要赚钱，他开始与亡灵世界对话、写诗。在一部新的传记中，兰登•汉莫(Langdon Hammer)描写了梅利尔的40年通灵会笔记如何变成一部伟大的560页诗集：《桑多弗变换着的光》（The Changing Light at Sandover)。
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