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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."
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. His 77 Dream Songs (1964) won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [1]
77 Dream Songs (1964) - John Berryman; 95 Poems (1958) - E. E. Cummings; 108 Verges Until Now - Will Inman (Carlton Press, 1964) Titles beginning with symbols
John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs, published this year, wins the 1965 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Russian poet Joseph Brodsky is convicted of "parasitism" in a Soviet court, which sends him into exile near the Arctic Circle. Among the many books of poetry published this year, Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead is greeted with particular acclaim.
John Berryman, 77 Dream Poems (1964), or His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968) Winners receive a prize of $20,000; three finalists (including the eventual winner) receive $1,000 apiece. [5] The prize does not require that nominees have an existing body of work or reach a certain age. [2]
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Other key texts of the American "confessional" school of poetry include Plath's Ariel, Berryman's The Dream Songs, and Sexton's To Bedlam and Part Way Back, though Berryman himself rejected the label "with rage and contempt": "The word doesn't mean anything. I understand the confessional to be a place where you go and talk with a priest.