"After thirty falls" : : new essays on John Berryman / / 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 importa...

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Superior document:DQR studies in literature ; 38
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material / Editors After thirty Falls
  • INTRODUCTION / PHILIP COLEMAN and PHILIP MCGOWAN
  • THE BLACK BOOK: JOHN BERRYMAN’S HOLOCAUST REQUIEM / MATTHEW BOSWELL
  • “CONTINUITY WITH LOVERS DEAD”: BERRYMAN, LOWELL, AND THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN SONNET / ALEX RUNCHMAN
  • THE WRITTEN AND THE ORAL IN HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET / PAGE RICHARDS
  • HOW-TO-DO / RON CALLAN
  • FAILED VISION? / JUSTIN QUINN
  • BERRYMAN IN HIS SYCAMORE / EDWARD CLARKE
  • SHAKESPEARE AND BERRYMAN: SONNET 129 AND DREAM SONG 1 / KIT FRYATT
  • FORM AND DISCONTENT: THE PROSODY OF THE DREAM SONGS / PETER DENMAN
  • “DRAMATIZING THE DREADFUL”: AFFECTIVE POSTURES IN THE DREAM SONGS / ANTHONY CALESHU
  • ALLUSIONS, ETC.: BERRYMAN, CATULLUS, SAPPHO / MICHAEL HINDS
  • “HE LIVED LIKE A RAT”: THE TRICKSTER IN THE DREAM SONGS / STEPHEN MATTERSON
  • “ONE GRAND EXCEPTION”: THE DREAM SONGS AS THEODICY? / BRENDAN COOPER
  • THE LIFE OF BERRYMAN’S CHRIST / TOM ROGERS
  • “WE WRITE VERSE WITH OUR EARS”: BERRYMAN’SMUSIC / MARIA JOHNSTON
  • JOHN BERRYMAN AND SHAKESPEAREAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY / PETER MABER
  • LOVE and FAME AND THE SELF IN SOCIETY / PHILIP COLEMAN
  • JOHN BERRYMAN AND THE WRITING OF SILENCE / PHILIP MCGOWAN
  • SNOW LINE / LAVINIA GREENLAW
  • THE GEOGRAPHY PAPER / BRENDAN KENNELLY
  • TRANSIT / MAURA DOOLEY
  • IN SICKNESS: THREE POEMS AFTER JOHN BERRYMAN / HARRY CLIFTON
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / Editors After thirty Falls
  • INDEX / Editors After thirty Falls.