John Berryman (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
John Berryman took degrees from Columbia University and the University of Cambridge, where he was an Oldham Shakespeare scholar. His early maturing as a scholar and a poet is indicated by his being awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1944-1946, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University in 1950-1951, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1952.
Publication of his work began in 1939 in the Kenyon Review and the well-received 1941 New Directions anthology Five Young American Poets, which also included work by Robert Lowell, who later became a close and influential...
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