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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.
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."
Five Young American Poets was a three volume series of poetry anthologies released from 1940 to 1944. The series was published by New Directions Publishers (Norfolk, Connecticut; James Laughlin, publisher). Volume I - 1940 includes selected poetry by: W. R. Moses; Randall Jarrell; George Marion O'Donnell; John Berryman; Mary Barnard; Reviews ...
John Berryman (1914–1972) Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (born 1947) Eva Best (1851–1925) Lorraine Bethel; Helen Bevington (1906–2001) Frank Bidart (born 1939) Ambrose Bierce (1842–c. 1913) Linda Bierds (born 1945) David Biespiel (born 1964) Helen Louisa Bostwick Bird (1826–1907) Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) John Peale Bishop (1892–1944 ...
John Berryman: The Dream Songs (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) His Toy, His Dream His Rest (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) Paul Blackburn, Two New Poems; Louise Bogan, The Blue Estuaries; Lucille Clifton, Good Times, selected as one of the year's best books by The New ...
In 1968, Schwartz's friend and peer, fellow poet John Berryman, dedicated his book His Toy, His Dream, His Rest "to the sacred memory of Delmore Schwartz", including 12 elegiac poems about Schwartz in the book. In "Dream Song #149", Berryman wrote of Schwartz, In the brightness of his promise, unstained, I saw him thro' the mist of the actual
The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets is a book by Adam Kirsch, published in 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company (ISBN 978-0393051971).The book considers in turn the work of six poets whose work has often been labelled 'confessional': Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Delmore Schwartz and Sylvia Plath.
W. H. Auden, "In Praise of Limestone", a poem published in Horizon in July (written in May), later published in a collection in 1951 (native English poet living in the United States) John Berryman, The Dispossessed [10] Richard Ellmann, Yeats, The Man And The Mask, United States, biography [9] William Everson, The Residual Years, New Directions ...