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The Dream Songs by John Berryman (1969, Hardcover)
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9780374143978
- Book Title
- Dream Songs
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 1969
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.5 in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- General, American / General
- Item Weight
- 28 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 427 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374143978
ISBN-13
9780374143978
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1294071
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dream Songs
Number of Pages
427 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1969
Topic
General, American / General
Genre
Poetry
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
28 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"The character of Henry [the hero ofThe Dream Songs] is a permanent addition to our literature."-James Schevill "A major achievement . . . [Berryman] has written an elegy on his brilliant generation and, in the process, he has also written an elegy on himself."-A. Alvarez,The Observer, "The character of Henry [the hero of The Dream Songs ] is a permanent addition to our literature."-James Schevill "A major achievement . . . [Berryman] has written an elegy on his brilliant generation and, in the process, he has also written an elegy on himself."-A. Alvarez, The Observer
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
811/.5/4
Synopsis
This edition combines "77 Dream Songs," awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965, and "His Toy, His Dream, His Rest," which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969. It contains 385 songs, an index of first lines, an index of titles, and a note by the author. In his essay on the work, Denis Donoghue says: "John Berryman has now completed the long poem, "The Dream Songs," begun in 1955 . . . The poet resolved it [the problem of a long poem] in his own way; not Eliot's way in "Four Quartets," Williams's way in "Paterson," Pound's way in the "Cantos," or Hart Crane's way in "The Bridge" . . . Mr. Berryman's answer was to conceive a diary, a dream diary." "A major achievement," writes A. Alvarez in "The Observer." "He has written an elegy on his brilliant generation and, in the process, he has also written an elegy on himself." Of the hero of "The Dream Songs," James Schevill has written: "The character of Henry is a permanent addition to American literature.", The Dream Songs is widely seen as Berryman's masterpiece, an impressively vast and varied collection of poems that is in itself a single, sprawling, ever-shifting poem. The songs in this great work are thus offered in many different tones, moods, and guises, although their form, Berryman's idiosyncratic reworking of the sonnet, remains more or less constant. Combining all of Berryman's earlier 77 Dream Songs (which won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize) and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (which won the 1969 National Book Award), this one-volume edition contains no fewer than 385 entries in what the critic Denis Donoghue has called Berryman's "dream diary." The book also has an index of first lines, an index of titles, and a note by the author.
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