“These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.”
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<p>This edition combines <i>The Dream Songs</i>, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965, and <i>His Toy, His Dream, His Rest</i>, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969 and contains all 385 songs. Of <i>The Dream Songs</i>, A. Alvarez wrote in <i>The Observer</i>, "A major achievement<i>. </i>He has written an elegy on his brilliant generation and, in the process, he has also written an elegy on himself."</p>
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John Berryman
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