The Dream Songs (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Allyn Smith
- First Published: 1964
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Parents and children, Suicide, Music or musicians, Poetry or poets, Dreams, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Fathers, Death or dying, Songs or songwriters
Critical Evaluation:
Begun in 1955, The Dream Songs combines two volumes, 77 Dream Songs (1964) and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968). The series of 385 songs is an ongoing, evolving account that mixes historical facts with autobiographical material, current events with philosophy, and archetypal myths with vaudeville humor. John Berryman is often associated with the confessional school of poetry, a style popular in America during the 1950’s and 1960’s and connected with the careers of Berryman’s contemporaries Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, and...
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