The Dream Songs

The Dream Songs
Title The Dream Songs PDF eBook
Author John Berryman
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages 469
Release 2014-10-21
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1466879637

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The complete Dream Songs--hypnotic, seductive, masterful--as thrilling to read now as they ever were John Berryman's The Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of oems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry. Henry falls in and out of love, and is in and out of the hospital; he sings of joy and desire, and of beings at odds with the world. He is lustful; he is depressed. And while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching himself together again, Berryman is doing the same thing to the English language, crafting electric verses that defy grammar but resound with an intuitive truth: "if he had a hundred years," Henry despairs in "Dream Song 29," "& more, & weeping, sleepless, in all them time / Henry could not make good." This volume collects both 77 Dream Songs, which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, and their continuation, His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which was awarded the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969. The Dream Songs are witty and wild, an account of madness shot through with searing insight, winking word play, and moments of pure, soaring elation. This is a brilliantly sustained and profoundly moving performance that has not yet-and may never be-equaled.

Dream Song

Dream Song
Title Dream Song PDF eBook
Author Paul L. Mariani
Publisher William Morrow
Total Pages 710
Release 1990
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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"The best single volume on Berryman's life and work". -- Kirkus Reviews

Poems

Poems
Title Poems PDF eBook
Author John Berryman
Publisher
Total Pages 88
Release 2004
Genre
ISBN 9780571217816

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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 to Berryman's own endurance in the face of alcoholism, depression and mental instability. In 1972 he leaped to his death from a bridge above the Mississippi River.

Dream Song

Dream Song
Title Dream Song PDF eBook
Author Paul Mariani
Publisher Trinity University Press
Total Pages 580
Release 2016-03-07
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1595347674

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Dream Song is the story of John Berryman, one of the most gifted poets of a generation that included Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, and Dylan Thomas. Using Berryman's unpublished letters and poetry, as well as interviews with those who knew him intimately, Paul Mariani captures Berryman's genius and the tragedy that dogged him, while at the same time illuminating one of the most provocative periods in American letters. Here we witness Berryman's struggles with alcohol and drugs, his obsession with women and fame, and his friendships with luminary writers of the century. Mariani creates an unforgettable portrait of a poet who, by the time of his suicide at age fifty-seven, had won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.

Dream Song

Dream Song
Title Dream Song PDF eBook
Author Linda Ladd
Publisher Open Road Media
Total Pages 156
Release 2014-04-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1497616093

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In early nineteenth-century America, a woman takes flight to protect a young boy—but love is about to catch up to her. Bethany Cole and her young charge, Peeto, are running for their lives, following the raging waters of the Mississippi to freedom, escaping the ruthless Luke Randall, Peeto’s father. When Luke finds Bethany and his son gone, he immediately vows to track down the lovely “kidnapper.” However, he isn’t counting on Bethany’s strength of will and determination. As she braves crossing the river and traversing the lawless lands of the frontier, Bethany shows him just what she’s made of. Now, Luke finds his resolve weakening in the face of Bethany’s beauty. She taunts and tantalizes him . . . but remains just out of reach, as a supreme battle of wills turns into a sweetly passionate surrender for the two adversaries. They began as enemies, but couldn’t defy the overwhelming need that brought them together.

A Study Guide for John Berryman's "Dream Song 29"

A Study Guide for John Berryman's
Title A Study Guide for John Berryman's "Dream Song 29" PDF eBook
Author Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages 30
Release 2016
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1410344592

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A Study Guide for John Berryman's "Dream Song 29," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Song and Dream

Song and Dream
Title Song and Dream PDF eBook
Author Dallas Walton Newsom
Publisher
Total Pages 200
Release 1922
Genre
ISBN

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