Description: First published in 1964 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Brief description: John Berryman (1914-1972) was an American poet and scholar. He won the Pulitzer Prize for 77 Dream Songs in 1965 and the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize for His Toy, His Dream, His Rest in 1969.
Review Quotes: "The Dream Songs . . . [is] indeed, the most entertaining American long poem written this century." --Nicholas Everett, The London Review of Books