| 书目名称 | John Berryman | | 副标题 | A Critical Commentar | | 编辑 | John Haffenden | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | The poetry of John Berryman occupies an incomparable place in modern American literature. This study traces the composition of the major poems, and interprets Berryman‘s characteristic trials and his imaginative triumphs. InHomage to Mistress Bradstreet , which Edmund Wilson called ‘ the most distinguished long poem by an American sinceThe Waste Land ‘, Berryman set himself enormous problems of theme and form, and overcame them with the vigorous and exciting craft that is described in this book. He transformed his personal concerns and historical interests into a fully achieved artistic unity, a poem which succeeds both as lyric and as drama. Similarly, in forging the thirteen-year ‘epic‘ ofThe Dream Songs , ‘the tragical history of Henry‘, as the poet himself called it, Berryman resolutely confronted chosen models such asDon QuixoteandThe Iliad , and eventually realised his own design and a unique poetic voice. ‘I set up the‘Bradstreet‘poem as an attack on‘The WasteLand‘ ‘ Berryman said in his National Book Award Acceptance Speech; ‘I set up ‘ The Dream Songs ‘ as hostile to every visible tendency in both American and English poetry...The aim was the same in both poems: the reprod | | 出版日期 | Book 1980 | | 关键词 | lyric; poem; poet; poetry | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05042-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-349-05042-0 | | copyright | Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1980 |
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