The Dispossessed

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The Dispossessed (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Many of the poems in The Dispossessed date from Berryman's student days. Their method of composition is conservative, betraying adaptations from Yeats, Frost, and Eliot. This is not to imply, however, that they stand outside Berryman's thematic canon. The title of the collection, followed by the dedication to his mother, imply the themes of estrangement and alienation which would become familiar elements in Berryman's later verse. The dedication ironically reveals Berryman's bitterness at never having known his father and, legally as well through a changed name, having effaced...

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