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Dream Song
Paul L. Mariani
其他書名
The Life of John Berryman
出版W. Morrow, 1990
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Poetry
ISBN06880502639780688050269
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=e0JaAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In this balanced biography of the complex and troubled man, Mariani interweaves Berryman's personal life with his evolving ideas about poets and poetry, and places him amongst his artistic and critical contemporaries. Concerned with Berryman the poet and critic, the author traces Berryman's literary career from his Columbia days where he was befriended by Blakmur and Van Doren, to his Cambridge study and meetings with T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas and W.B. Yeats, to his Harvard and Princeton teaching days, and his relationships with Schwartz, Lowell, and Saul Bellow. Although Mariani covers Berryman's struggle with alcohol and drugs, his obsessions with women and fame, and other reasons for his agony, he does not justify his suicide, or deduce from them an index to the quality of his poetry. ISBN 0-688-05026-3: $29.95.