The Changing Light at Sandover
Front cover of the first single-volume edition (November 1982) showing the ballroom of James Merrill's childhood home in the 1930s | |
| Author | James Merrill |
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| Cover artist | Harry Ford |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Epic Poetry, 20th Century American Poetry |
| Publisher | Atheneum Books (Charles Scribner's Sons) |
Publication date | 1976 (The Book of Ephraim)
1978 (Mirabell: Books of Number) 1980 (Scripts for the Pageant) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 560 |
| ISBN | 9780689112836 |
| OCLC | 9248562 |
The Changing Light at Sandover is a 560-page epic poem by James Merrill (1926–1995). Sometimes described as a postmodern apocalyptic epic, the poem was published in three volumes from 1976 to 1980, and as one volume "with a new coda" by Atheneum (Charles Scribner's Sons) in 1982 (ISBN 978-0-689-11282-9).