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John Berryman was one of the most celebrated and accomplished poets of his time. In the two decades since his death, critical and biographical interest has continued at an impressive rate, but until now, no collection of original essays has appeared. Editors Richard J. Kelly and Alan K. Lathrop have brought together essays that provide a fresh assessment of Berryman as teacher, friend, colleague, poet, and critic. The volume opens with a moving personal...
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In this balanced biography of the complex and troubled man, Mariani interweaves Berryman's personal life with his evolving ideas about poets and poetry, and places him amongst his artistic and critical contemporaries. Concerned with Berryman the poet and critic, the author traces Berryman's literary career from his Columbia days where he was befriended by Blakmur and Van Doren, to his Cambridge study and meetings with T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and...
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The Great William is the first book to explore how seven renowned writers--Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Virginia Woolf, Charles Olson, John Berryman, Allen Ginsberg, and Ted Hughes--wrestled with Shakespeare in the very moments when they were reading his work. What emerges is a constellation of remarkable intellectual and emotional encounters. Theodore Leinwand builds impressively detailed accounts of these writers' experiences through their...
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"Of the eight American Nobel Prize winners in literature, three--Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill and William Faulkner--were alcoholic drinkers, and two--Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck--were hard drinkers. Almost all critical comment about these writers has treated their drinking habits a somehow separate from their work. Thomas Gilmore argues that the result is neither good biography nor good literary criticism. He shows how the drinking and the...
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"The six poets featured in The Wounded Surgeon - Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Delmore Schwartz, and Sylvia Plath - were the most recent constellation of great poets in our history, a group of friends, colleagues, and rivals who changed the face of American literature. Their poems about childhood trauma, madness, and sex shattered taboos about what was acceptable in poetry, inspiring the popular style of poetry now...
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Contains essays on W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, Theodore Roethke, David Ignatow, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop. Presents an overview of each poet's work in the milieu of the past 50 years of American poetry, with emphasis on the effects of Freud, Marx and Darwin on the individual poet and society.
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