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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. His best-known work is The Dream Songs .
John Berryman. 1914–1972. Photo by Mark Kauffman/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images. A scholar and professor as well as a poet, John Berryman is best-known for The Dream Songs (1969), an intensely personal sequence of 385 poems which brought him the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award.
Apr 17, 2024 · Notable Works: “77 Dream Songs”. “Homage to Mistress Bradstreet”. “Recovery”. “The Dream Songs”. John Berryman (born Oct. 25, 1914, McAlester, Okla., U.S.—died Jan. 7, 1972, Minneapolis, Minn.) was a U.S. poet whose importance was assured by the publication in 1956 of the long poem Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. Berryman was ...
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John Berryman - John Berryman won widespread recognition and acclaim for his innovative, Pulitzer Prize-winning book 77 Dream Songs, a collection of sonnet-like poems whose wrenched syntax, scrambled diction, extraordinary leaps of language and tone, and wild mixture of high lyricism and low comedy plumbed the reaches of a human soul and psyche.
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Consider the case of John Berryman, born in October 1914, who won the Pulitzer Prize half a century later for his exhilarating 77 Dream Songs and, in 1969, the National Book Award for 308 more...
Oct 12, 2020 · Books. The Heartsick Hilarity of John Berryman’s Letters. Tracking the poet’s chaotic, self-destructive life, his correspondence strains toward the condition of music. By Anthony Lane....
Eleven Addresses to the Lord. By John Berryman. 1. Master of beauty, craftsman of the snowflake, inimitable contriver, endower of Earth so gorgeous & different from the boring Moon, thank you for such as it is my gift. I have made up a morning prayer to you.
