num_pages: 428
description: This edition combines 77 Dream Songs , awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965, and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest , which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969. It contains 385 songs, an index of first lines, an index of titles, and a note by the author.In his essay on the work, Denis Donoghue "John Berryman has now completed the long poem, The Dream Songs , begun in 1955 . . . The poet resolved it [the problem of a long poem] in his own way; not Eliot's way in Four Quartets , Williams's way in Paterson , Pound's way in the Cantos , or Hart Crane's way in The Bridge . . . Mr. Berryman's answer was to conceive a diary, a dream diary.""A major achievement," writes A. Alvarez in The Observer . "He has written an elegy on his brilliant generation and, in the process, he has also written an elegy on himself."Of the hero of The Dream Songs , James Schevill has "The character of Henry is a permanent addition to American literature."
language: English
title: The Dream Songs
titlecomplete: The Dream Songs
genres: 20th Century, Classics, Unfinished, The United States Of America, Collections, American, Literary Fiction, Literature, United States, Poetry
ratings_count: 6690
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux