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The collected poems of John Berryman, written between 1937 and 1971. Berryman, a poet from a generation of American poets which included Robert Lowell, Randel Jarrell and Elizabeth Bishop, is known for his book of poems "The Dream Songs", among others.
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John Berryman (1914-72) was born John Smith in McAlester, Oklahoma, and educated at Colombia College and Cambridge University. He later held posts at Harvard and Princeton, before taking up a professorship at the University of Minnesota. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for 77 Dream Songs, and he continued to build upon this series of poems, publishing the end result, The Dream Songs, in 1969. His Collected Poems was published after his death in 1991.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Since his suicide the poetry of John Berryman has reached a much wider readership here in Europe, and with good reason. Much of the first half of his Collected Poems contains poetry that is so rich in language and beauty that one is shocked that one has never heard or read any of his work before. His "Homage to Mistress Broadstreet" remains one of the best long poems of the post-war era and revals Berryman as a master of style and syntax, almost equal to that of his immediate contemporary Robert Lowell.
His later more confessional poems ring with honesty and desperation and, quite often, a hard sarcastic humour, revealing a man well aware of not only his talent and abilities but also his flaws. This book is a must for anyone interested in modern American poetry.
His later more confessional poems ring with honesty and desperation and, quite often, a hard sarcastic humour, revealing a man well aware of not only his talent and abilities but also his flaws. This book is a must for anyone interested in modern American poetry.
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Definitive Berryman
17 Aug 2008
Format:Paperback
All the poems but the /Dream Songs/, which are collected separately (also from Amazon). The included /Sonnets/ are from the original ms carbons, unemended, but with the five extra of the 1964 first edition.
Easy typeface and size, stanzas properly divided.
Adequate bio for all but Berryman scholars.
You like Berryman in whole or part, or you don't, and this is where you'll find out. If you do, a must-have (also the /Dream Songs/).
Easy typeface and size, stanzas properly divided.
Adequate bio for all but Berryman scholars.
You like Berryman in whole or part, or you don't, and this is where you'll find out. If you do, a must-have (also the /Dream Songs/).
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
John Berryman, Collected Poems
3 Feb 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I ordered this book as a birthday present to myself. It came quickly, and it's fine--I'm about halfway through reading it now.
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