John Berryman (Critical Survey of Poetry, Second Revised Edition)
Other Literary Forms
In addition to his poetry, John Berryman produced a considerable number of reviews and critical pieces. A posthumous collection, The Freedom of the Poet (1976), gathers a representative sample of his criticism, published and unpublished. Berryman did not produce much prose fiction, preferring to use verse as a narrative vehicle. He did, however, write several short stories, and an unfinished novel, Recovery (1973), was published as he left it at his death. Other critical writing includes Stephen Crane (1950), a critical biography with...
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