Collected poems, 1937-1971
Berryman, John , 1914-1972
Collected poems, 1937-1971 / John Berryman ; edited and introduced by Charles Thornbury. - New York : Farrar Straus Giroux , c1989. - lxvii, 347 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes indexes.
Making careful editorial decisions about Berryman's sometimes confusing manuscripts and corrected page proofs, Thornbury brings together all seven collections of short poems and Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. Though one can trace the influences of other poets--Yeats, Auden, Crane--before Berryman's voice emerges, ultimately the subject of his poems is unabashedly the personal. Tortured if brilliant, Berryman draws on his many selves to fashion dialogs between old and new ways of being. Central to the mid-century's intellectual and emotional life, he records the outcome of human experience as the opposite of what we either hope for or expect in shifts of language from dialect to sophisticated rhetoric that underscore the poetry's agony. Not included are Berryman's own published prefaces and notes, copy texts, variants, The Dream Songs , and posthumously published works.
0374126194
89030944
Poetry, American
PS3503.E744 / A17 1989
811 BER
Collected poems, 1937-1971 / John Berryman ; edited and introduced by Charles Thornbury. - New York : Farrar Straus Giroux , c1989. - lxvii, 347 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes indexes.
Making careful editorial decisions about Berryman's sometimes confusing manuscripts and corrected page proofs, Thornbury brings together all seven collections of short poems and Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. Though one can trace the influences of other poets--Yeats, Auden, Crane--before Berryman's voice emerges, ultimately the subject of his poems is unabashedly the personal. Tortured if brilliant, Berryman draws on his many selves to fashion dialogs between old and new ways of being. Central to the mid-century's intellectual and emotional life, he records the outcome of human experience as the opposite of what we either hope for or expect in shifts of language from dialect to sophisticated rhetoric that underscore the poetry's agony. Not included are Berryman's own published prefaces and notes, copy texts, variants, The Dream Songs , and posthumously published works.
0374126194
89030944
Poetry, American
PS3503.E744 / A17 1989
811 BER
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