num_pages: 416
description: John Berryman, one of America's most talented modern poets, was winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 77 Dream Songs and the National Book Award for His Toy , His Dream , His Rest . He gained a reputation as an innovator whose bold literary adventures were tempered by exacting discipline. Berryman was also an active, prolific, and perceptive critic whose own experience as a major poet served to his advantage.Berryman was a protégé of Mark Van Doren, the great Shakespearean scholar, and the Bard's work remained one of his most abiding passions--he would devote a lifetime to writing about it. His voluminous writings on the subject have now been collected and edited by John Haffenden.
language: English
title: Berryman's Shakespeare: Essays, Letters, and Other Writings
titlecomplete: Berryman's Shakespeare: Essays, Letters, and Other Writings
genres: Literature, Essays
ratings_count: 41
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux