Berryman, John 1914-1972

Stephen Crane by John Berryman ( Book )
63 editions published between 1950 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,364 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A penetrating study of the life and writings of Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage, by one of America's greatest poets and critics

The dream songs by John Berryman ( Book )
39 editions published between 1969 and 2014 in English and Spanish and held by 1,723 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This edition combines 'The Dream Songs, ' awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965, and 'His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, ' which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969 and contains all 385 songs

Collected poems, 1937-1971 by John Berryman ( Book )
22 editions published between 1989 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,692 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of Berryman's poems, written between 1937 and 1971, includes his seven collections of short poems, the original text of his sonnets, and Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, one of his two long poems

His toy, his dream, his rest; 308 dream songs by John Berryman ( Book )
24 editions published between 1968 and 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,675 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

77 dream songs by John Berryman ( Book )
39 editions published between 1959 and 2014 in English and German and held by 1,550 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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 pAprika" 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

Delusions, etc. of John Berryman by John Berryman ( Book )
21 editions published between 1972 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,467 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Mr. Berryman's posthumous book of poems, Delusions, Etc., had been completed and was in proof before his death on January 7, 1972. The opening section, "Opus Dei," is a sequence of eight poems based on the offices of the day from Lauds to Compline'the lines above being quoted from Nones. Part two consists of five poems whose subject are George Washington ("Rectitude, and the terrible upstanding member"), Beethoven, Emily Dickinson, Georg Trakl, and Dylan Thomas. The thirteen poems in the third part include "Gislebertus' Eve," "Scholars at the Orchid Pavilion," "Ecce Homo," Tampa Stomp," and "Hello." The fourth part is arranged as a scherzo. It starts with "Navajo Setting the Record Straight" and ends with "Damn You, Jim D., You Woke Me Up." The concluding section is reflective and meditative in tone, with "The Prayer of the Middle-Aged Man," "Somber Prayer," "Minnesota Thanksgiving," and "A Usual Prayer," and a coda that rises to the high spirits of "King David Dances." Delusions, Etc. is an impressive collection of verse by one of the most original poets of our time, whose death at the height of his powers is a tragic loss to letters

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet; [poem] by John Berryman ( Book )
40 editions published between 1956 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,431 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This volume represents the first appearance in paperback of one of America's most outstanding poets. It contains, besides the long title poem, 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

The freedom of the poet by John Berryman ( Book )
14 editions published between 1972 and 2013 in English and held by 1,426 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Less than a year before his death in 1972, John Berryman signed a contract with his publisher for a book of prose, The Freedom of the Poet, for which he had made a selection from his published and unpublished writings ... There are thirty-six pieces in all, including not only such justly famous writnigs on Elizabethan figures as Shakespeare and Thomas Nash but also essays on American writers like Dreiser, Crane, James, Lardner, Fitzgerald, and Bellow, and on poets like Hardy, Pound, Random, Eliot, Thomas, Lowell, and Williams. --Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Berryman's sonnets by John Berryman ( Book )
34 editions published between 1952 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,349 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Love affair in the poet's youth is depicted in the style of Petrarchism

Recovery by John Berryman ( Book )
33 editions published between 1945 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,332 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Alan Severance, a scholar and Pulitzer Prize winner. struggles to conquer his addiction to alcohol