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77 Dream Songsby John BerrymanISBN 0374508488 (0-374-50848-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: '77 Dream Songs'Book summary:Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list - starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber poetry covers, connecting the backlist and the new titles within a single embracing cover solution. A major reissue program is scheduled, to include classic individual collections from each decade, some of which have long been unavailable: Wallace Stevens's Harmonium and Ezra Pound's Personae from the 1920s; W.H. Auden's Poems (1930); Robert Lowell's Life Studies from the 1950s; John Berryman's 77 Dream Songs and Philip Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings from the 1960s; Ted Hughes's Gaudete and Seamus Heaney's Field Work from the 1970s; Michael Hofmann's Acrimony and Douglas Dunn's Elegies from the 1980s. Timed to celebrate publication of Seamus Heaney's new collection, Electric Light, the relaunch is intended to re-emphasize the predominance of Faber Poetry, and to celebrate a series which has played a shaping role in the history of modern poetry since its inception in the 1920s. [via]
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Bahamas: A Social Studies Course for Secondary Schoolsby John BerrymanISBN 0333461207 (0-333-46120-7)
Softcover, Macmillan Publishers Limited
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Berryman's Shakespeareby John Berryman , John HaffendenISBN 0374527504 (0-374-52750-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Berryman's Shakespeare'Book summary:John Berryman, one of America's most talented modern poets, was winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 77 Dream Songs and the National Book Award for His Toy, His Dream, His Rest. He gained a reputation as an innovator whose bold literary adventures were tempered by exacting discipline. Berryman was also an active, prolific, and perceptive critic whose own experience as a major poet served to his advantage.[via]
Berryman was a protégé of Mark Van Doren, the great Shakespearean scholar, and the Bard's work remained one of his most abiding passions--he would devote a lifetime to writing about it. His voluminous writings on the subject have now been collected and edited by John Haffenden. 
Collected Poems 1937-1971by John BerrymanISBN 0374522812 (0-374-52281-2)
Softcover, Noonday Pr
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Collected Poems, 1937-71by John BerrymanISBN 0571143172 (0-571-14317-2)
Hardcover, Faber & Faber, Incorporated
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Delusions, Etc. of John Berrymanby John Berryman , Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0374137986 (0-374-13798-6)
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The Dream Songsby John BerrymanISBN 0374516707 (0-374-51670-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dream Songs'Book summary:This edition combines 77 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. It contains 385 songs, an index of first lines, an index of titles, and a note by the author.[via]
In his essay on the work, Denis Donoghue says: "John Berryman has now completed the long poem, The Dream Songs, begun in 1955 . . . The poet resolved it [the problem of a long poem] in his own way; not Eliot's way in Four Quartets, Williams's way in Paterson, Pound's way in the Cantos, or Hart Crane's way in The Bridge . . . Mr. Berryman's answer was to conceive a diary, a dream diary."
"A major achievement," writes A. Alvarez in The Observer. "He has written an elegy on his brilliant generation and, in the process, he has also written an elegy on himself."
Of the hero of The Dream Songs, James Schevill has written: "The character of Henry is a permanent addition to American literature." 
The Dream Songsby W.S. Merwin, John BerrymanISBN 0374530661 (0-374-53066-1)
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The Freedom of the Poetby John BerrymanISBN 0374158487 (0-374-15848-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Freedom of the Poet'Book summary: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. In his draft of a prefatory note, he acknowledged the influence of Eliot, Blackmur, Pound, and Empson on his critical thought, pointing out that "my interest in critical theory has been slight," and concluding: "But I have also borne in mind throughout: remarks by Franz Kafka ('the story came out of me like a real birth, covered with slime and blood') and Joseph Conrad: 'All the great creations of literature have been symbolic, and in that way have gained in complexity, in power, in depth and in beauty.'"There are thirty-six pieces in all, including not only such justly famous writings on Elizabethan figures as "Shakespeare at Thirty" and "Thomas Nashe and The Unfortunate Traveller" but also "Shakespeare's Last Word" and "Marlowe's Damnations," published for the first time; essays on American writers like Dreiser, Crane, James, Lardner, Fitzgerald, and Bellow, and on poets like Hardy, Pound, Ransom, Eliot, Thomas, Lowell, and Williams; unpublished essays on Cervantes, Whitman's "Song of Myself," Conrad, and Anne Frank; "Thursday Out," an account of a trip to India, and stories, published and unpublished, including "Wash Far Away," "The Lovers," "All Their Colours Exiled," and "The Imaginary Jew."The poet's "freedom" in Berryman's definition is not license but escape, release--even death. The title piece--the second part of his essay on The Tempest--confirms this with his statement about Prospero: "This longing--for release, for freedom--...is neither disillusioned nor frightening. It is radiant and desirous."This final book which John Berryman himself prepared exhibits his erudition and scholarship, his critical insight and empathy, and a first-rate poet's powerful prose.[via]More editions of The Freedom of the Poet:
Henry's Fate and Other Poems, 1967-1972by John Berryman , John HaffendenISBN 0571111645 (0-571-11164-5)
Softcover, Faber and Faber
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His Toy, His Dream, His Rest: 308 Dream Songsby John BerrymanISBN 0571090885 (0-571-09088-5)
Hardcover, Faber
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Homage Of Mistress Bradstreetby John BerrymanISBN 0374506604 (0-374-50660-4)
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John Berryman: Collected Poems, 1937-1971by John Berryman , Charles ThornburyISBN 0374126194 (0-374-12619-4)
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Love & Fameby John BerrymanISBN 0374192332 (0-374-19233-2)
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Recoveryby John Berryman , Saul BellowISBN 0374248176 (0-374-24817-6)
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Selected Poems, 1938-1968by John BerrymanISBN 0571097669 (0-571-09766-9)
Hardcover, Faber and Faber Ltd
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Stephen Craneby John BerrymanISBN 0374517320 (0-374-51732-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stephen Crane'Book summary:Written by a Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning American poet and critic, this is the finest and most insightful study available about the life and literary achievements of Stephen Crane (1871-1900), poet and author of the masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage. In addition to providing a complete (and exciting) picture of Crane's life, Berryman gives a focused assessment of Crane's poetry, prose, and journalism, discussing how critics have regarded these writings over the course of a century. [via]
We Dream of Honour: John Berryman's Letters to His Motherby John Berryman , Richard KellyISBN 0393024776 (0-393-02477-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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