John Berryman
John Berryman (1914-1972) was an American poet and scholar. He won the Pulitzer Prize for 77 Dream Songs in 1965 and the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize for His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, a continuation of the Dream Songs, in 1969.
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The Heart Is Strange
John Berryman; Edited and with an Introduction by Daniel Swift
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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John Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the twentieth century. Best known for the painfully sad and raucously funny cycle of Dream Songs, he wrote passionately: of love...
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The Dream Songs
FSG Classics
John Berryman; Edited by Daniel Swift; Introduction by Michael Hofmann
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The complete Dream Songs-hypnotic, seductive, masterful-as thrilling to read now as they ever were
John Berryman's Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest,...
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77 Dream Songs
FSG Classics
John Berryman; Edited by Daniel Swift; Introduction by Henri Cole
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A wild, masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning cycle of poems that half a century later still shocks and astounds
John Berryman was hardly unknown when he published 77 Dream Songs, but...
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Berryman's Sonnets
John Berryman; Edited by Daniel Swift; Introduction by April Bernard
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A brilliant and fiercely pitched sonnet cycle about love: at once passionate, forbidden, and doomed
John Berryman was an unconventional poet, but he must have surprised even himself...
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Delusions, Etc.
John Berryman
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Mr. Berryman's posthumous book of poems, Delusions, Etc., had been completed and was in proof before his death on January 7, 1972. The opening section, "Opus Dei," is a sequence of eight...
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Henry's Fate and Other Poems
John Berryman
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The poems in this posthumous collection were written by John Berryman between 1967 and 1972, the year of his death. The first group consists of forty-five unpublished or uncollected Dream Songs,...
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Love and Fame
John Berryman
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
One of the most astonishing things about this astonishing book is that it follows so closely in time the enormous achievement of the author's Dream Songs, the first part of which 77...
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Short Poems
John Berryman
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This collection brings together in a single volume a wide range of John Berryman's earlier work. It includes the complete contents of The Dispossessed, a selection published in 1948 which...
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His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
John Berryman
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His Toy, His Dream, His Rest continues and concludes the poem, called The Dream Songs, begun in 77 Dream Songs, which was published in 1964 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize...
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Berryman's Shakespeare
John Berryman; Edited by John Haffenden; With a Preface by Robert Giroux
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Edited by John Haffenden
With a Preface by Robert Giroux
John Berryman, one of America's most talented modern poets, was winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 77 Dream Songs and the...
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John Berryman
John Berryman; Edited by Charles Thornbury
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This volume brings together all of Berryman's poetry, except for his epic The Dream Songs, ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to those written in the last months of his life...
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Stephen Crane
John Berryman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Hill and Wang
This is the only biography by a leading American poet of the great American writer, Stephen Crane. John Berryman originally wrote this book in 1950 for the distinguished "American Men of Letters"...
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Freedom of the Poet
John Berryman
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Less than a year before his death in 1972, John Berryman signed a contract with his publisher for a book of prose, The Freedom of the Poet, for which he had made a selection from his published...
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Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
John Berryman
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This volume represents the first appearance in paperback of one of America's most outstanding poets, John Berryman. It contains, besides the long title poem, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet,...
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