Langdon Hammer

Langdon Hammer is the Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English at Yale University. He is the author of James Merrill: Life and Art and, with Stephen Yenser, co-editor of A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill.

Eliot Among the Ruins

The Waste Land remains prophetic, but what did it foretell?
Langdon Hammer
December 12, 2022

The Century

Farewell to a building—and a time
Langdon Hammer
January 19, 2022
Portrait of J. D. McClatchy

Still to Love

For J. D. McClatchy
Langdon Hammer
January 1, 2020