When writing the introduction to a handsome new edition of John Berryman’s long poem “77 Dream Songs,” I was happy for the chance to consider why it was that I was first drawn, thirty-five ...

John Berryman lived in Ireland for a short while in 1966 I think. He befriended my father in a local Pub and my father invited him around to our house over Christmas with his wife Kate and daughter ...

John Berryman, whose "Dream Songs" remain one of the most celebrated yet enigmatic achievements in American verse, is ready for his close-up Terrence Spencer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ...

“The Selected Letters of John Berryman,” chronicles that cycle of breakdown and recovery, expectation and disappointment, through more than 600 pages of correspondence.

The poet John Berryman was born in 1914, in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was educated at Columbia and then in England, where he studied at Cambridge, met W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas, and lit a ...

Berryman took the dream part of “Dream Songs” seriously. And what we get in these nearly 400 poems is the phantasmagoria of a besotted brain staving off the urge to annihilate itself.

When John Berryman and Robert Giroux met at Columbia University in 1932, they would not have expected to forge a decades-long friendship that would result in over a dozen literary classics.

John Berryman-II Silhouette. By Stuart A. Davis. For a poet who is attempting what many consider to be the most radical of recent experiments with language--the Dream Songs--John Berryman's poetic ...

Rediscovering John Berryman. Special | 26m 49s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Forty years after his death, the poet and scholar, John Berryman's legacy is examined and celebrated in this short film.

John Berryman (1914–1972) wrote five essays and eight poems for The Nation between 1935 and 1970. One month after the last poem was published, he sent a letter to the editor noting the ...

John Berryman (1914-72) has one of the most idiosyncratic voices in American poetry. That voice, which is everywhere on display in a new Selected Poems, capably edited by Kevin Young, is by turns ...