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77 dream songs
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- Book Synopsis
- This edition of 77 Dream Songs faithfully replicates the iconic jacket, format and setting of the first edition, published in 1964. 'The poem then, whatever its wide cast of characters, is essentially about an imaginary character (not the poet, not me) named Henry, a white American in early middle age sometimes in blackface, who has suffered an irreversible loss and talks about himself sometimes in the first person, sometimes in the third, sometimes even in the second; he has a friend, never named, who addresses him as Mr Bones and variants thereof. Resquiescant in pace.' John Berryman Where did it all go wrong? There ought to be a law Against Henry. -Mr Bones: there is. (Dream Song 4) 'All is risk and variety here. This great Pierrot's universe is more tearful and funny than we can easily bear. . . No voice now or persona sticks in my ear as his. It is poignant, abrasive, anguished, humorous . . .' Robert Lowell
- About The Author
- John Berryman (1914-72) was born John Smith in McAlester, Oklahoma, and educated at Colombia College and Cambridge University. He later held posts at Harvard and Princeton, before taking up a professorship at the University of Minnesota. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for 77 Dream Songs, and he continued to build upon this series of poems, publishing the end result, The Dream Songs, in 1969. His Collected Poems was published after his death in 1991.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780571400225
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (13 August 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 112
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 204 x 156 mm
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