The dream songs / John Berryman ; [introduction by W. S. Merwin.]
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TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007, c1969.Description: xxvi, 427 p. 22 cmISBN: - 0374530661
- 9780374530662
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | NonFiction | 811.54 B534 | Checked out | 05/31/2024 | 33111004953317 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This edition combines The 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 and contains all 385 songs. Of The Dream Songs , A. Alvarez wrote in The Observer , "A major achievement . He has written an elegy on his brilliant generation and, in the process, he has also written an elegy on himself."
Includes indexes.
Previously published separately under titles: 77 dream songs (1964) and His toy, his dream, his rest (1968).
Reprint with new introduction. Originally published: New York: Farrar, Straus and Girous, 1969.
"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 all 385 songs, an index of first lines, an index of titles, a note by the author, and a new introduction by W. S. Merwin"--P. [4] of cover.