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| Name: |
John Berryman | | Birth Date: |
October 25, 1914 | | Death Date: |
January 7, 1972 | | Place of Birth: |
McAlester, Oklahoma, United States of America | | Place of Death: |
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
poet, biographer |
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 Biography of John Berryman
9,310 words, approx. 31 pages
 John Berryman is associated with a group of poets who have become known as the "Middle Generation," a group that includes Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, Theodore Roethke, and Robert Lowell. It is a critical convenience to label much of the work of... summary from source:
Biography of John Berryman
2,099 words, approx. 7 pages
The life of John Berryman (1914-1972) is at the center of his poetry. Dealing with obsession, tragedy, desire, ironic comedy, and the deep pain of life itself, Berryman's poetry is both brilliant and tormented. With The Dream Songs, which took him 13... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 John Berryman Information
3,250 words, approx. 11 pages
 John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) (October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the...
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 The Boston Globe The Private John Berryman
03/11/1988: 857 words, approx. 3 pages WE DREAM OF HONOUR. John Berryman's Letters to His Mother, edited by Richard J. Kelly. Norton. 405 pp. $22.50. Illustrated. JOHN BERRYMAN AND THE THIRTIES. A Memoir, by E. M. Halliday. University of Massachusetts Press. 240 pp. $25 ($10.95,... summary from source:
National Review John Berryman and the Thirties.
06/24/1988: 891 words, approx. 3 pages KAFKAESQUE JOHN BERRYMAN (1914-72) had a miserable childhood. He suffered from a weak father and a strong, seductive mother, and was haunted by nightmares of his parents' quarrels. To him, Martha Berryman was a monster who had driven her despised husband to... summary from source:
 The New York Observer Cond\'8e Nast Lust! Nose Pressed to Glass, Eyes on 4 Times Sq.
3/27/2005: 1,096 words, approx. 4 pagesThere are many perks to my day job at one of New York's hundreds of hedge funds: my own Herman Miller cubicle, cute computer-systems guys to flirt with, flexible hours, free juice and seltzer in the office refrigerators. But the most excellent bonus of the... summary from source:
The New York Observer Condé Nast Lust! Nose Pressed to Glass, Eyes on 4 Times Sq.
3/27/2005: 1,096 words, approx. 4 pagesThere are many perks to my day job at one of New York's hundreds of hedge funds: my own Herman Miller cubicle, cute computer-systems guys to flirt with, flexible hours, free juice and seltzer in the office refrigerators. But the most excellent bonus of the...
Literary Criticism
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 Lewis Hyde
9,088 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay concerned with the relationship between alcohol and the poetic mind, Hyde explicates The Dream Songs of John Berryman "in terms of the disease of alcoholism."
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Critical Essay by Joel Conarroe
7,426 words, approx. 25 pages
I think what strikes any reader of Berryman is how very self-conscious an artist he is: he practices a self-conscious craft, he achieves a self-conscious and deliberate range, he is almost arrogantly self-conscious in his use of the personal. He knows precisely what he wants to accomplish and how to accomplish it. He also knows how very much of his material has to be shaped by the dark turbulence of the human psyche…. Out of the insecurities and disorders and disasters of his life, he constructs with... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Gary Q. Arpin
4,678 words, approx. 16 pages
To say that John Berryman's poetry is controversial is to state the obvious. Few poets—and none that I can think of since Pound—have aroused such varying and often violent responses. A. Alvarez has written that one either loves or loathes Berryman's work, and that seems to be the case. This should not be a matter of great surprise. For one thing, Berryman's work—especially The Dream Songs—is difficult, difficult in a way that most recent poetry is not. At a t...
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