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John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the " confessional " school of poetry.
Delmore Schwartz's confessional long poem Genesis had been published in 1943; and John Berryman had written a sonnet sequence in 1947 about an adulterous affair he'd had with a woman named Chris while he was married to his first wife, Eileen (but since publishing the sonnets would have revealed the affair to his wife, Berryman didn't actually ...
In the case of John Berryman, he initially wrote a series of some hundred modernistic love sonnets during the 1940s. These, however, remained uncollected until 1967, when they appeared as Berryman’s Sonnets , fleshed out with a few additions to give them the form of a sequence.
The Dream Songs is a compilation of two books of poetry, 77 Dream Songs (1964) and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968), by the American poet John Berryman.According to Berryman's "Note" to The Dream Songs, "This volume combines 77 Dream Songs and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, comprising Books I through VII of a poem whose working title, since 1955, has been The Dream Songs."
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet < John Berryman poem; Archaic Torso of Apollo, Archaischer Torso Apollos < Rainer Maria Rilke poem; Sonnet: On the Death of Mr. Richard West, Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West, Sonnet on the Death of Mr Richard West, Sonnet (on the Death of Mr. Richard West), On the Death of Mr Richard West < poem by Thomas Gray
Sonette an Orpheus (trans. Sonnets to Orpheus) (1922) - Rainer Maria Rilke; Songs of Experience - William Blake; Songs of Innocence - William Blake; Sonnets from the Portuguese - Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Sounding the Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for Christian Year (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2012) - Malcolm Guite ISBN 978-1848252745
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John Berryman, Berryman's Sonnets (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Paul Blackburn: The Reardon Poems; The Cities; Richard Brautigan, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, including the poem of the same name; Gwendolyn Brooks, The bitch; Robert Creeley, Words [31] Ed Dorn, The North Atlantic Turbine, Fulcrum Press [32]