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092			_aBERRYMAN J. _bS193
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aSamway, Patrick H., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aJohn Berryman and Robert Giroux : _ba publishing friendship / _cPatrick Samway, S.J.
264		1	_aNotre Dame, Indiana : _bUniversity of Notre Dame Press, _c[2020]
264		4	_c©2020
300			_axv, 268 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and index.
505	0		_aThe early years and Columbia College -- The post-Columbia years -- Berryman's Princeton years -- The new beginning at Farrar, Straus & Giroux -- From anxiety to reconciliation -- Working on another book of the Dream Songs -- The final years of collaboration.
520	8		_aThis engaging study provides new perspectives on the lives and work of two major figures in American poetry and publishing in the second half of the twentieth century: Robert Giroux (1914-2008), editor-in-chief of Harcourt, Brace and Company and later of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and John Berryman (1914-1972), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Shakespearean scholar who also received a National Book Award and a Bollingen Prize for Poetry. From their first meeting as undergraduates at Columbia College in New York City in the early 1930s, Giroux and Berryman became lifelong friends and publishing partners. Patrick Samway received unprecedented access to Giroux's letters and essays. By incorporating either sections or whole letters of the correspondence between Berryman and Giroux into this book, Samway makes available for the first time a historical account of their relationship, including revealing portraits of their personal lives. As Giroux edited over a dozen books by Berryman, his letters to the poet were often filled with editorial details and pertinent observations, emanating from his genuine affection for his friend, whose talent he never doubted, even as Berryman endured prolonged periods of hospitalization due to his alcoholism. Giroux gave Berryman the greatest gift he could: sustained encouragement to continue writing without trying to manipulate or discourage him in any way. But Giroux also had a deep-seated secret desire to surpass the essays written about Shakespeare by Berryman, as well as the book on Shakespeare written by their mutual professor Mark Van Doren. Giroux's volume, The Book Known as Q: A Consideration of Shakespeare's Sonnets, was finally published in 1982. Samway's fascinating account of a gifted but troubled poet and his devoted yet conflicted editor will interest fans of Berryman and all readers and students of American poetry.
600	1	0	_aBerryman, John, _d1914-1972. _997238
600	1	0	_aGiroux, Robert. _9107459
650		0	_aPoets, American _y20th century _vBiography. _939108
650		0	_aBook editors _zUnited States _vBiography. _9175968
650		0	_aAuthors and publishers _zUnited States. _9224785
650		0	_aAuthors and publishers. _955709
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