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Quot Im Boston Northeastern
2,031 wordsPeter Stitt INTERVIEWER: In The Dream Songs there is a passage about assistant professors becoming associate professors by working on your poems. How do you feel about being cannon fodder for aspiring young critics and graduate students? As for the graduate students, some of the work they do is damned interesting. A woman somewhere in the South did an eighty-page thesis investigating the three little epigraphs to the 77 Dream Songs and their bearing on the first three books of the poem. I must s...
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University Of Minnesota Pulitzer Prize
1,798 wordsJoel Athens BERRYMAN was born John Allyn Smith, Jr. , in McAlester, Oklahoma, the son of John Allyn Smith, a banker, and Martha Little, formerly a schoolteacher. The family moved frequently, finally settling in Tampa, Florida, where his father speculated in land, failed, and in 1926 committed suicide. Three months later his mother married John Mc Alpin Berryman, whose name was given to the son. The new family moved to New York City, but hard times followed the 1929 stock market crash; young John...
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Negro Dialect Helen Vendler
1,603 wordsOn " Negro Minstrelsy" In The Dream Songs On " Negro Minstrelsy" In The Dream Songs William Wasserstrom What distinguishes a dream song, therefore, is not a coquetry or a clumsiness of art, as Toynbee argued, but a rather capital thing, the discovery that American minstrelsy long ago devised a formula which could transmit the mood of an idea and simultaneously conceal its reason. This discovery enabled Berryman to create what Lowell calls a " waking hallucination, "...
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Negro Dialect Helen Vendler
1,844 wordsRobert Lowell (1964) [Lowells review was important for Berryman: it appeared in the New York Review of Books and at the height of Lowells own achievement For the Union Dead had just been published. Lowell was at times baffled, irritated and dismayed by the poems, and when he offered support, it was remarkably tentative... His descriptions would set the tone for other reviewers. When eulogizing Berryman in 1972, Lowell blurted out: " 77 Dream Songs are harder than most hard modern poetry, th...
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Part Of The Poem Robert Lowell
1,468 wordsLowell and Berryman Robert Lowell and John Berryman both used their personal experiences as visuals in their writings. Their styles are similar in that aspect. Robert Lowells poem The Drunken Fisherman tells a story about himself fishing, and describes the seen in great detail. Of Suicide, written by John Berryman, is an autobiographical poem about how depressed he is. Berryman's work describes in detail what he thinks about and what was going on in his life at that moment making him feel so dep...
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