"After thirty falls" : : new essays on John Berryman / / edited by Philip Coleman, Philip McGowan ; with a preface by Richard J. Kelly.

• Superior document: DQR studies in literature ; 38
• TeilnehmendeR: Coleman, Philip.; McGowan, Philip, 1969-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: DQR studies in literature ; 38.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 290 pages :; music)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: New essays on John Berryman; Preliminary material /; INTRODUCTION /; THE BLACK BOOK: JOHN BERRYMAN’S HOLOCAUST REQUIEM /; “CONTINUITY WITH LOVERS DEAD”: BERRYMAN, LOWELL, AND THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN SONNET /; THE WRITTEN AND THE ORAL IN HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET /; HOW-TO-DO /; FAILED VISION? /; BERRYMAN IN HIS SYCAMORE /; SHAKESPEARE AND BERRYMAN: SONNET 129 AND DREAM SONG 1 /; FORM AND DISCONTENT: THE PROSODY OF THE DREAM SONGS /; “DRAMATIZING THE DREADFUL”: AFFECTIVE POSTURES IN THE DREAM SONGS /; ALLUSIONS, ETC.: BERRYMAN, CATULLUS, SAPPHO /; “HE LIVED LIKE A RAT”: THE TRICKSTER IN THE DREAM SONGS /; “ONE GRAND EXCEPTION”: THE DREAM SONGS AS THEODICY? /; THE LIFE OF BERRYMAN’S CHRIST /; “WE WRITE VERSE WITH OUR EARS”: BERRYMAN’SMUSIC /; JOHN BERRYMAN AND SHAKESPEAREAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY /; LOVE and FAME AND THE SELF IN SOCIETY /; JOHN BERRYMAN AND THE WRITING OF SILENCE /; SNOW LINE /; THE GEOGRAPHY PAPER /; TRANSIT /; IN SICKNESS: THREE POEMS AFTER JOHN BERRYMAN /; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS /; INDEX /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1282265768; 9786612265761; 9401204527; 1435612930
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Philip Coleman, Philip McGowan ; with a preface by Richard J. Kelly.

Prefaced by an account of the early days of Berryman studies by bibliographer and scholar Richard J. Kelly, “ After thirty Falls ” is the first collection of essays to be published on the American poet John Berryman (1914-1972) in over a decade. The book seeks to provoke new interest in this important figure with a group of original essays and appraisals by scholars from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and the United States. Exploring such areas as the poet’s engagements with Shakespeare and the American sonnet tradition, his use of the Trickster figure and the idea of performance in his poetics, it expands the interpretive framework by which Berryman may be evaluated and studied, and it will be of interest to students of modern American poetry at all levels. What makes the collection particularly valuable is its inclusion of previously unpublished material – including a translation of a poem by Catullus and excerpts from the poet’s detailed notes on the life of Christ – thereby providing new contexts for future assessments of Berryman’s contribution to the development of poetry, poetics, and the relationship between scholarship and other forms of writing in the twentieth century.