Homage To Mistress Bradstreet
John BerrymanPublished1956
Pages112
Formatpaperback
PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Synopsis
This volume represents the first appearance in paperback of one of America's most outstanding poets, John Berryman. It contains, besides the long title poem, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, the major portion of Short Poems; a selection from The Dispossessed, which drew on two earlier collections; some poems from His Thought Made Pockets & The Plane Buckt; and one poem from Sonnets.
"It seems to me the most distinguished long poem by an American since The Waste Land." - Edmund Wilson
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About John Berryman
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John Berryman
1914–1972
John Allyn (Smith) Berryman was an American poet, a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry. He was the author of The Dream Songs, which are playful, witty, and morbid. Berryman committed suicide in 1972. - Wikipedia
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