Description: Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969.
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:
"I'd be shucking my obligation not to . . . make a renewed case for 'The Dream Songs.' It's a book that collects Berryman's original 77 dream songs and adds the further 308 he later wrote. This new edition includes a fond, funny and brilliant introduction by the poet and translator Michael Hofmann." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times
"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