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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coleman, Philip.

McGowan, Philip, 1969-

Series:

DQR studies in literature ; 38.

DQR studies in literature ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poets, American.

Berryman, John, 1914-1972--Criticism and interpretation.

Berryman, John.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 290 pages : music)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

New essays on John Berryman

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 What makes the collection particularly valuable is its inclusion of previously unpublished material – including a translation of a poem by Catullus and excerpts from the poet’s detailed notes on the life of Christ – thereby providing new contexts for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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-26576-8

9786612265761

94-012-0452-7

1-4356-1293-0

OCLC:

182873959

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401204521 DOI