Dream Song

by Mariani, Paul L.

• ISBN13: 9781558490178
• ISBN10: 1558490175
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-03-01
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

"The best single volume on Berryman's life and work". -- Kirkus Reviews

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Second Edition	ix
Preface	xxi
Acknowledgments	xxvii
Notes on Sources	xxxi
Part I: 1914--40
Death of a Father: 1914--26	3	(11)
Growing Up & Other Agonies: 1926--32	14	(16)
Fair Columbia: 1932--36	30	(29)
Mr. Berryman Goes to Cambridge: 1936--37	59	(17)
The Real Thing: 1937--38	76	(13)
New York & Other Betrayals: 1938--39	89	(21)
Alone in a Tormented City: 1939--40	110	(21)
Part II: 1941--53
The Terrifying Bride: 1941--42	131	(16)
Down and Out in Boston & New York: 1942--43	147	(9)
Rescue Work at Princeton: 1943--46	156	(19)
The Kingmakers: 1946--47	175	(11)
The Art of Adultery: 1947	186	(20)
The Face in the Mirror: 1948--49	206	(15)
Eddies and Backwaters: 194--50	221	(13)
By Muleback Up the Foothills of Parnassus: 1951--52	234	(18)
The Unmaking of a Marriage: 1953	252	(19)
Part III: 1953--62
Death of a Poet: 1953--54	271	(16)
Home: 1954--55	287	(15)
Becoming a Professor: 195--57	302	(13)
The Holy Cities: 1957	315	(13)
Operating From Nothing: 1958	328	(14)
Another Drink, Another Marriage on the Rocks: 1959	342	(12)
A Perfect Marriage: 1960--61	354	(18)
My Heavy Daughter: 1962	372	(19)
Part IV: 1963--72
77 Songs 77: 1963	391	(11)
Henry's Success Story: 1964--66	402	(18)
Dublin's Shades: 1966--67	420	(12)
The American Bard: 1967--68	432	(10)
An Archaic Sea with Craters Grand: 1969	442	(10)
Revelations of a Locked Ward: 1970	452	(16)
Thin Long Arms Out in Unconquerable Beseeching: 1970--71	468	(12)
I Am Busy Tired Mad Lonely & Old: 1971--72	480	(23)
Index	503