The Dream Songs

John Berryman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Apr 17, 2007 - Poetry - 427 pages

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."

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Review: The Dream Songs

User Review  - Donal Lyons - Goodreads

Cross am I sometimes with my little daughter: fill her eyes with tears. Forgive me, Lord. Unite my various soul, sole watchman of the wide & single stars.

Review: The Dream Songs

User Review  - Jim - Goodreads

Painful but fascinating. You get addicted to his presence.

About the author

John Berryman was born in Oklahoma in 1914. The author of several volumes of poetry, of which The Dream Songs is considered his masterwork, he died, a suicide, in 1972.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Dream Songs; FSG classics
• Author: John Berryman
• Contributor: W. S. Merwin
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
• ISBN: 0374530661, 9780374530662
• Length: 427 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / American / General; Poetry / General