Some months before his tragic death in January 1972, John Berryman completed this selection from the whole of his published poetry. He designed it to provide both an introduction to his work and a summary of his poetic career up to the publication of Love and Fame. It reveals clearly that Berryman was one of the most original and important poets of the twentieth century.
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Some months before his tragic death in January 1972, John Berryman completed this selection from the whole of his published poetry. It reveals clearly that Berryman was one of the most original and important poets of the twentieth century.
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The Selected Poems 1938-1968 of John Berryman, chosen by the poet himself, reveals clearly that the poet's work extends far beyond The Dream Songs, and establishes him as one of the most original and important American poets of the twentieth century.
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ISBN
9780571322060
Publisert
2014-11-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Vekt
224 gr
Høyde
200 mm
Bredde
133 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
96

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Biographical note

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.