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The Faber Berryman
John Berryman
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Description for The Faber Berryman
Paperback. In this series, contemporary poets select and introduce a poet of the past who they have particularly admired. By their selection and personal and critical reactions, they offer an insight into their own work, as well as providing an introduction to some of the greatest poets in history. Editor(s): Hofman, Michael. Series: Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DCF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 119 x 196 x 10. Weight in Grams: 84.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature. 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 ... Read more
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
92
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
Poet to Poet
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571217816
SKU
V9780571217816
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About John Berryman
John Berryman (1914-72) was born John Smith in McAlester, Oklahoma, and educated at Colombia College and Cambridge University. He later held posts at Harvard and Princeton, before taking up a professorship at the University of Minnesota. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for 77 Dream Songs, and he continued to build upon this series of poems, publishing the ... Read more
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