77 Dream Songs

Author : John Berryman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466879637
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dream Songs written by John Berryman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dream Songs is widely seen as Berryman's masterpiece, an impressively vast and varied collection of poems that is in itself a single, sprawling, ever-shifting poem. The songs in this great work are thus offered in many different tones, moods, and guises, although their form, Berryman's idiosyncratic reworking of the sonnet, remains more or less constant. Combining all of Berryman's earlier 77 Dream Songs (which won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize) and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (which won the 1969 National Book Award), this one-volume edition contains no fewer than 385 entries in what the critic Denis Donoghue has called Berryman's "dream diary." The book also has an index of first lines, an index of titles, and a note by the author.

Author : John Berryman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466879610
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 77 Dream Songs written by John Berryman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the volume was, nevertheless, a shock and a revelation. A "spooky" collection in the words of Robert Lowell-"a maddening work of genius." As Henri Cole notes in his elegant, perceptive introduction, Berryman had discovered "a looser style that mixed high and low dictions with a strange syntax." Berryman had also discovered his most enduring alter ego, a paranoid, passionate, depressed, drunk, irrepressible antihero named Henry or, sometimes, Mr. Bones: "We touch at certain points," Berryman claimed, of Henry, "But I am an actual human being." Henry may not be real, but he comes alive on the page. And while the most famous of the Dream Songs begins, "Life, friends, is boring," these poems never are. Henry lusts: seeing a woman "Filling her compact & delicious body / with chicken páprika" he can barely restrain himself: "only the fact of her husband & four other people / kept me from springing on her." Henry despairs: "All the world like a woolen lover / once did seem on Henry's side. / Then came a departure." Henry, afraid of his own violent urges, consoles himself: "Nobody is ever missing." 77 Dream Songs won the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, but Berryman's formal and emotional innovations-he cracks the language open, creates a new idiom in which to express eternal feelings-remain as alive and immediate today as ever.

Author : John Berryman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374534527
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 77 Dream Songs written by John Berryman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1964 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Author : John Berryman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466879564
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book His Toy, His Dream, His Rest written by John Berryman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 for poetry. It is a much longer volume than the earlier one and contains 308 songs in all, starting of course with number 78. "Some of the people who addressed themselves to 77 Dream Songs went so desperately astray," writes the author, "that I permit myself one word. The poem then, whatever its wide cast of characters, is essentially about an imaginary character (not the poet, not me) named Henry, a white American in early middle age sometimes in blackface, who has suffered an irreversible loss and talks about himself sometimes in the first person, sometimes in the third, sometimes even in the second; he has a friend, never named, who addresses him as Mr Bones and variants therof. Requiescant in pace."

Author : John Berryman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571217816
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems written by John Berryman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature. John Berryman (1914-72) was a poet from an immensely gifted generation of American poets that included Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell and Elizabeth Bishop. His long sequence The Dream Songs has become an enduring landmark in American poetry and a tribute to Berryman's own endurance in the face of alcoholism, depression and mental instability. In 1972 he leaped to his death from a bridge above the Mississippi River.

Author : John Berryman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374126194
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Berryman written by John Berryman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1989-09-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Berryman's published works ranges from his earliest poems, written in 1937, to those published in 1972, a year after his death, and includes the original text of his Sonnets

Author : John Berryman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374534543
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berryman's Sonnets written by John Berryman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Love affair in the poet's youth is depicted in the style of Petrarchism.

Author : John Berryman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466879572
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Homage to Mistress Bradstreet written by John Berryman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, the major portion of Short Poems; a selection from The Dispossessed, which drew on two earlier collections; some poems from His Thought Made Pockets & The Plane Buckt; and one poem from Sonnets. "It seems to me the most distinguished long poem by an American since The Waste Land." - Edmund Wilson

Author : John Berryman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374192332
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love & Fame written by John Berryman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1970 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-nine lyrical works in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet describes the creative process, politics, and the struggle of maintaining life.

Author : John Berryman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374535787
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Heart Is Strange written by John Berryman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new selection of John Berryman's work, in honor of the poet's centenary"--