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- Title
O Sing the Marbles: Typos, Losing, and the Portable Cultural Histories of James Merrill.
- Authors
BEN-MERRE, DAVID
- Abstract
The author discusses the poem "Losing the Marbles," by James Merrill, from the anthology "Collected Poems," by James Merrill, focusing on typos as a form of rhetoric and the social role of language in cultural histories. The poem "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles," by John Keats, is mentioned. Topics include syncope, the development of languages, variant spellings, wordplay, and the potential social significance of mistakes in book printing.
- Subjects
LOSING the Marbles (Poem); MERRILL, James, 1926-1995; PUBLISHED errata; RHETORIC &; culture; ELGIN marbles; CULTURAL history; ON Seeing the Elgin Marbles (Poem : Keats)
- Publication
Arizona Quarterly, 2013, Vol 69, Issue 1, p119
- ISSN
0004-1610
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/arq.2013.0004