Title: Dream song :
Authors: Mariani, Paul L.
Date: 1990
Publisher: W. Morrow,
Physical description: xxii, 519 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC class: P
Contents: Part I: 1914-40. Death of a father, 1914-26 -- Growing up & other agonies: 1926-32 -- Fair Columbia: 1932-36 -- Mr. Berryman goes to Cambridge: 1936-37 -- The real thing: 1937-38 -- New York & other betrayals: 1938-39 -- Alone in a tormented city, 1939-40 -- Part II: 1941-53. The terrifying bride: 1941-42 -- Down and out in Boston & New York: 1942-43 -- Rescue work at Princeton: 1943-46 -- The Kingmakers: 1946-47 -- The art of adultery: 1947 -- The face in the mirror: 1949-49 -- Eddies and backwaters: 1949-50 -- By muleback up the foothills of Parnassus: 1951-52 -- The unmaking of a marriage: 1953 -- Part III: 1953-62. Death of a poet: 1953-54 -- Home: 1954-55 -- Becoming a professor: 1956-57 -- The holy cities: 1957 -- Operating from nothing: 1958 -- Another drink, another marriage on the rocks: 1959 -- A perfect marriage: 1960-61 -- My heavy daughter: 1962 -- Part IV: 1963-72. 77 songs 77 : 1963 -- Henry's success story: 1964-66 -- Dublin's shades: 1966-67 -- The American bard: 1967-68 -- An Archaic Sea with craters grand: 1969 -- Revelations of a locked ward: 1970 -- Thin long arms out in unconquerable beseeching: 1970-71 -- I am busy tired mad lonely & old: 1971-72.