Berryman, John 1914-1972
Overview
| Works: | 433 works in 1,241 publications in 4 languages and 56,859 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Fiction Biography Psychological fiction Gothic fiction Horror tales Horror fiction |
| Roles: | Author, Performer, Author of introduction, Honoree, Other, Narrator |
| Classifications: | PS3503.E744, 811.54 |
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Most widely held works about
John Berryman
- Part of nature, part of us : modern American poets by Helen Vendler( Book )
- Midcentury quartet : Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the making of a postmodern aesthetic by Thomas J Travisano( )
- John Berryman and the thirties : a memoir by E. M Halliday( )
- The Columbia history of American poetry by Jay Parini( Book )
- John Berryman by William J Martz( Book )
- Poets on poetry by Howard Nemerov( Book )
- "After thirty falls" : new essays on John Berryman by Philip Coleman( )
- Berryman's Henry : living at the intersection of need and art by Samuel Fisher Dodson( )
- Dream song : the life of John Berryman by Paul L Mariani( Book )
- John Berryman by J. M Linebarger( Book )
- Poets in their youth : a memoir by Eileen B Simpson( Book )
- The life of John Berryman by John Haffenden( Book )
- Seven American poets from MacLeish to Nemerov : an introduction( Book )
- Postmodern American poetry by Jerome Mazzaro( Book )
- A poet's alphabet : reflections on the literary art and vocation by Louise Bogan( Book )
- John Berryman : an introduction to the poetry by Joel Conarroe( Book )
- Equivocal spirits : alcoholism and drinking in twentieth-century literature by Thomas B Gilmore( Book )
- John Berryman, a critical commentary by John Haffenden( Book )
- The confessional poets by Robert Phillips( Book )
- Manic power : Robert Lowell and his circle by Jeffrey Meyers( Book )
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Most widely held works by
John Berryman
The dream songs by
John Berryman(
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50 editions published between 1959 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 1,827 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
50 editions published between 1959 and 2015 in 3 languages and held by 1,827 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
Stephen Crane by
John Berryman(
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54 editions published between 1950 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,749 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is the only biography by a leading American poet of the great American writer, Stephen Crane. John Berryman originally wrote this book in 1950 for the distinguished "American Men of Letters" series, and revised it twelve years later. This edition reproduces the later version. In Stephen Crane, Berryman assesses the writings and life of a man whose work has been one of the most powerful influences on modern writers. As Edmund Wilson said in The New Yorker, "Mr. Berryman's work is an important one, and not merely because at the moment it stands alone ... We are not likely soon to get anything better on the critical and psychological sides." It is Berryman's special insight into Crane as a poet that makes this book unique
54 editions published between 1950 and 2013 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,749 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is the only biography by a leading American poet of the great American writer, Stephen Crane. John Berryman originally wrote this book in 1950 for the distinguished "American Men of Letters" series, and revised it twelve years later. This edition reproduces the later version. In Stephen Crane, Berryman assesses the writings and life of a man whose work has been one of the most powerful influences on modern writers. As Edmund Wilson said in The New Yorker, "Mr. Berryman's work is an important one, and not merely because at the moment it stands alone ... We are not likely soon to get anything better on the critical and psychological sides." It is Berryman's special insight into Crane as a poet that makes this book unique
Collected poems, 1937-1971 by
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25 editions published between 1989 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,655 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This volume brings together all of Berryman' s poetry, except for his epic "The Dream Songs," ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to those written in the last months of his life (1972). A definitive edition of one of America' s most distinguished poets
25 editions published between 1989 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,655 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This volume brings together all of Berryman' s poetry, except for his epic "The Dream Songs," ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to those written in the last months of his life (1972). A definitive edition of one of America' s most distinguished poets
His toy, his dream, his rest; 308 dream songs by
John Berryman(
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30 editions published between 1968 and 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,616 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Shows how to count from one to twenty and twenty-five, fifty, seventy-five, and one hundred using American Sign Language
30 editions published between 1968 and 1969 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,616 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Shows how to count from one to twenty and twenty-five, fifty, seventy-five, and one hundred using American Sign Language
77 dream songs by
John Berryman(
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58 editions published between 1959 and 2014 in English and German and held by 1,559 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
58 editions published between 1959 and 2014 in English and German and held by 1,559 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(
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27 editions published between 1972 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,418 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Poetry by John Berryman including the poems under "Opus Dei" and "Scherzo."
27 editions published between 1972 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,418 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Poetry by John Berryman including the poems under "Opus Dei" and "Scherzo."
Berryman's sonnets by
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41 editions published between 1952 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,372 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Love affair in the poet's youth is depicted in the style of Petrarchism
41 editions published between 1952 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,372 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Love affair in the poet's youth is depicted in the style of Petrarchism
The freedom of the poet by
John Berryman(
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1 edition published in 1976 in English and held by 1,323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 1976 in English and held by 1,323 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recovery by
John Berryman(
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34 editions published between 1945 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,295 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Alan Severance, a scholar and Pulitzer Prize winner. struggles to conquer his addiction to alcohol
34 editions published between 1945 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,295 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Alan Severance, a scholar and Pulitzer Prize winner. struggles to conquer his addiction to alcohol
Love & fame by
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31 editions published between 1970 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,235 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fifty-nine lyrical works in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet describes the creative process, politics, and the struggle of maintaining life
31 editions published between 1970 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,235 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fifty-nine lyrical works in which the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet describes the creative process, politics, and the struggle of maintaining life
Henry's fate & other poems, 1967-1972 by
John Berryman(
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19 editions published between 1976 and 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,219 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
19 editions published between 1976 and 1978 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,219 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet; [poem] by
John Berryman(
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27 editions published between 1956 and 2014 in English and held by 1,026 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, long poem by John Berryman, written in 1948–53 and published in 1956. Noted for its intensity, it is a tribute to colonial poet Anne Bradstreet that also reveals much about the author. The poem examines the tension between Bradstreet’s personal life and her artistic life, concluding in a spirit of fatalism. It shows throughout a loving and intimate grasp of the details of American history. The work primarily examines creative repression, religious apostasy, and the temptation to adultery
27 editions published between 1956 and 2014 in English and held by 1,026 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, long poem by John Berryman, written in 1948–53 and published in 1956. Noted for its intensity, it is a tribute to colonial poet Anne Bradstreet that also reveals much about the author. The poem examines the tension between Bradstreet’s personal life and her artistic life, concluding in a spirit of fatalism. It shows throughout a loving and intimate grasp of the details of American history. The work primarily examines creative repression, religious apostasy, and the temptation to adultery
Berryman's Shakespeare by
John Berryman(
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21 editions published between 1999 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,013 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Shakespeare's early comedy; Shakespeare at thirty; Pathos and dream; The world of action; All's well; The crisis; The tragic substance; The end; Shakespeare's last word; Project: an edition of King Lear; Textual introduction [King Lear]; Staging [Lear]; The conceiving of King Lear; Letters on Lear; William Houghton, William Haughton, The Shrew and the Sonnets; The sonnets; The Comedy of Errors; 1590: King John; 2 Henry VI; 3 Henry VI; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; On Macbeth; Shakespeare's poor relation: 2 Henry IV; Shakespeare's reality
21 editions published between 1999 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,013 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Shakespeare's early comedy; Shakespeare at thirty; Pathos and dream; The world of action; All's well; The crisis; The tragic substance; The end; Shakespeare's last word; Project: an edition of King Lear; Textual introduction [King Lear]; Staging [Lear]; The conceiving of King Lear; Letters on Lear; William Houghton, William Haughton, The Shrew and the Sonnets; The sonnets; The Comedy of Errors; 1590: King John; 2 Henry VI; 3 Henry VI; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; On Macbeth; Shakespeare's poor relation: 2 Henry IV; Shakespeare's reality
The monk by
M. G Lewis(
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4 editions published between 1952 and 1959 in English and held by 898 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The monk, Ambrosio is abandoned by his parents as an infant. Raised in a monastery, he is a religious fast-tracker taught to disdain sin and hold himself up as a model of purity, untempted by secular pleasure. In Madrid, as the novel begins, he is the young abbot, leader of a monastery. A mesmerizing public speaker, Ambrosio becomes proud and vain, as his popular weekly sermons quickly raise him to the status of an idol. Mischief and misfortunes ensue as Ambrosio's real virtues are put to the test
4 editions published between 1952 and 1959 in English and held by 898 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The monk, Ambrosio is abandoned by his parents as an infant. Raised in a monastery, he is a religious fast-tracker taught to disdain sin and hold himself up as a model of purity, untempted by secular pleasure. In Madrid, as the novel begins, he is the young abbot, leader of a monastery. A mesmerizing public speaker, Ambrosio becomes proud and vain, as his popular weekly sermons quickly raise him to the status of an idol. Mischief and misfortunes ensue as Ambrosio's real virtues are put to the test
Short poems by
John Berryman(
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10 editions published between 1967 and 2014 in English and held by 616 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This collection brings together in a single volume a wide range of John Berryman's earlier work. It includes the complete contents of The Dispossessed, a selection published in 1948 which has been out of print; and all the poems in His Thought Made Pockets & the Plane Buckt, privately issued in a limited edition in 1958; and "Formal Elegy," written in 1963 on the occasion of the death of President Kennedy. There are sixy-four poems in all. Mr. Berryman calls the collection Short Poems, despite the noticeable length of several of the poems, no doubt to distinguish this book from his long work-in-progress, The Dream Songs, from Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, and from the recently published sequence, Berryman's Sonnets
10 editions published between 1967 and 2014 in English and held by 616 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This collection brings together in a single volume a wide range of John Berryman's earlier work. It includes the complete contents of The Dispossessed, a selection published in 1948 which has been out of print; and all the poems in His Thought Made Pockets & the Plane Buckt, privately issued in a limited edition in 1958; and "Formal Elegy," written in 1963 on the occasion of the death of President Kennedy. There are sixy-four poems in all. Mr. Berryman calls the collection Short Poems, despite the noticeable length of several of the poems, no doubt to distinguish this book from his long work-in-progress, The Dream Songs, from Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, and from the recently published sequence, Berryman's Sonnets
Stephen Crane : a critical biography by
John Berryman(
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21 editions published between 1950 and 2001 in English and held by 520 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This is a study about the brief, adventurous, travel-worn life - and specifically its relationship to the writings - of Stephen Crane (1871-1900), the American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Despite being an artist of immense talent and achievements, Crane, who died at the age of twenty-eight, quickly slipped into obscurity. Berryman's biography revived Crane's reputation and delineated the scope of his artistic accomplishment."--Jacket
21 editions published between 1950 and 2001 in English and held by 520 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This is a study about the brief, adventurous, travel-worn life - and specifically its relationship to the writings - of Stephen Crane (1871-1900), the American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Despite being an artist of immense talent and achievements, Crane, who died at the age of twenty-eight, quickly slipped into obscurity. Berryman's biography revived Crane's reputation and delineated the scope of his artistic accomplishment."--Jacket
Selected poems by
John Berryman(
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6 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 507 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Explores the twentieth-century poet's emulation of the everyday protagonist's search for connection, discussing the accomplishments of such early works as 'Homage to Mistress Bradstreet,' his middle-career writings including the 'Dream Song,' and his late religious poems."--Provided by publisher
6 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 507 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Explores the twentieth-century poet's emulation of the everyday protagonist's search for connection, discussing the accomplishments of such early works as 'Homage to Mistress Bradstreet,' his middle-career writings including the 'Dream Song,' and his late religious poems."--Provided by publisher
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, and other poems by
John Berryman(
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29 editions published between 1959 and 1978 in English and held by 406 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
29 editions published between 1959 and 1978 in English and held by 406 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The heart is strange : new selected poems by
John Berryman(
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7 editions published between 2014 and 2016 in English and held by 342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A lively sampling from the work of one of the most celebrated and daring poets of the twentieth century John Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the twentieth century. Best known for the painfully sad and raucously funny cycle of Dream Songs, he wrote passionately: of love and despair, of grief and laughter, of longing for a better world and coming to terms with this one. The Heart Is Strange, a new selection of his poems, along with reissues of Berryman's Sonnets, 77 Dream Songs, and the complete Dream Songs, marks the centenary of his birth. The Heart Is Strange includes a generous selection from across Berryman's varied career: from his earliest poems, which show him learning the craft, to his breakthrough masterpiece, "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet," then to his mature verses, which find the poet looking back upon his lovers and youthful passions, and finally, to his late poems, in which he battles with sobriety and an increasingly religious sensibility. The defiant joy and wild genius of Berryman's work has been obscured by his struggles with mental illness and alcohol, his tempestuous relationships with women, and his suicide. This volume, which includes three previously uncollected poems and an insightful introduction by the editor Daniel Swift, celebrates the whole Berryman: tortured poet and teasing father, passionate lover and melancholy scholar. It is a perfect introduction to one of the finest bodies of work yet produced by an American poet"--
7 editions published between 2014 and 2016 in English and held by 342 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A lively sampling from the work of one of the most celebrated and daring poets of the twentieth century John Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the twentieth century. Best known for the painfully sad and raucously funny cycle of Dream Songs, he wrote passionately: of love and despair, of grief and laughter, of longing for a better world and coming to terms with this one. The Heart Is Strange, a new selection of his poems, along with reissues of Berryman's Sonnets, 77 Dream Songs, and the complete Dream Songs, marks the centenary of his birth. The Heart Is Strange includes a generous selection from across Berryman's varied career: from his earliest poems, which show him learning the craft, to his breakthrough masterpiece, "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet," then to his mature verses, which find the poet looking back upon his lovers and youthful passions, and finally, to his late poems, in which he battles with sobriety and an increasingly religious sensibility. The defiant joy and wild genius of Berryman's work has been obscured by his struggles with mental illness and alcohol, his tempestuous relationships with women, and his suicide. This volume, which includes three previously uncollected poems and an insightful introduction by the editor Daniel Swift, celebrates the whole Berryman: tortured poet and teasing father, passionate lover and melancholy scholar. It is a perfect introduction to one of the finest bodies of work yet produced by an American poet"--
Selected poems, 1938-1968 by
John Berryman(
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33 editions published between 1972 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 306 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
33 editions published between 1972 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 306 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Aiken, Conrad, American literature American poetry Ammons, A. R., Ashbery, John, Auden, W. H.--(Wystan Hugh), Authors, American Baraka, Amiri, Berryman, John, Bishop, Elizabeth, Bradstreet, Anne, Brinnin, John Malcolm, Crane, Stephen, Cummings, E. E.--(Edward Estlin), Dickey, James Dickinson, Emily, Duncan, Robert, Eberhart, Richard, Eliot, T. S.--(Thomas Stearns), Friendship Frost, Robert, Ginsberg, Allen, Jarrell, Randall, Levine, Philip, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, Lowell, James Russell, Lowell, Robert, Merwin, W. S.--(William Stanley), Millay, Edna St. Vincent, Moore, Marianne, Nemerov, Howard O'Hara, Frank Plath, Sylvia Poe, Edgar Allan, Poetry Poets, American Postmodernism (Literature) Pound, Ezra, Ransom, John Crowe, Rich, Adrienne, Roethke, Theodore, Stevens, Wallace, Taylor, Edward, Teasdale, Sara, United States Warren, Robert Penn, Whitman, Walt, Wilbur, Richard, Williams, William Carlos, Wylie, Elinor,
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