Berryman’s Shakespeare (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Allyn Smith
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Time of Work: 1944-1971
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Literature, 1940’s, Poetry or poets, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays
On January 7, 1972, poet and scholar-adventurer John Berryman jumped off a bridge over the Mississippi River and ended his life at age fifty-eight. The author of the critical biography Stephen Crane (1950) and a posthumously published novel, Recovery (1973), as well as a book of essays and stories, The Freedom of the Poet (1976), Berryman is best known as a premier mid-twentieth century American poet whose thirteen published poetry collections include Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1956), Berryman’s Sonnets (1967), and Seventy-seven Dream...
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