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Bibliography

Primary Works

  • *Poems.*Norfolk, Ct.: New Directions Press, 1942.

  • *The Dispossessed.*New York: William Sloan Associates, 1948.

  • Homage to Mistress Bradstreet. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1956.

  • Homage to Mistress Bradstreet and Other Poems. London: Faber & Faber, 1959; New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968.

  • Stephen Crane. New York: William Sloane Associates, 1950; rpt New York: Meridian Books, 1962.

  • His Thought Made Pockets & the Plane Buckt. Pawlet, Vermont: Claude Fredericks, 1958.

  • The Arts of Reading (with Ralph Ross and Allen Tate). New York: Thomas Y. Cromwell, 1960.

  • 77 Dream Songs. NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1964; London: Faber & Faber, 1964.

  • Short Poems. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967.

  • Berryman’s Sonnets. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967; London: Faber & Faber, 1972.

  • His toy, His Dream, His Rest; 308 Dream Songs. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968; London: Faber and Faber, 1969.

  • The Dream Songs. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969.

  • Love & Fame. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970; 2nd edn. Revised, 1972; London: Faber and Faber, 1971 (contents as for 2nd American edn.)

  • Delusions, Etc. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972.

  • Selected Poems 1938-1968. London: Faber & Faber, 1972.

  • Recovery. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.

  • The Freedom of the Poet. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976.

  • Henry’s Fate & Other Poems, 1967-1972. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977; London: Faber & Faber, 1978.

  • We Dream of Honour: John Berryman’s Letters to His Mother. edited by Richard J. Kelly. NY: Norton, 1988.

  • Collected Poems, 1937-1971. edited and introduced by Charles Thornbury. NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989.

  • Berryman’s Shakespeare. edited and introduced by John Haffenden. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

  • ÒThree and a Half Years at Columbia,Õ in Wesley First (ed.), University on the Heights. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1969

  • ÒThursday Out,Õ The Noble Savage, n.3, May 1961, pp. 186-194; rpt in The Freedom of the Poet.

Biographies and Memoirs

  • Haffenden, John. The Life of John Berryman. Boston: Routledge & K. Paul, 1982.

  • Mariani, Paul L. Dream Song: the Life of John Berryman. NY: W. Morrow, 1990.

  • Simpson, Eileen B. Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir. NY: Random House, 1982.

Criticism

  • Arpin, Gary Q. John Berryman: A Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1976.

  • Arpin, Gary Q. The Poetry of John Berryman. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1978.

  • Arpin, Gary Q. Master of the Baffled House: The Dream Songs of John Berryman. Derry, PA: Rook Soc, 1976.

  • Baechler, Lea. “John Berryman, Theodore Roethke, and the Elegy.” The Columbia History of American Poetry. Eds. Jay Parini and Brett C. Miller. NY: Columbia UP, 1993. 605-31.

  • Barza, Steven. “About John Berryman.” Colorado Quarterly 26.3 (1977): 51-72.

  • Bawer, Bruce. “Dispossession, Dreams, Delusions: The Poetry of John Berryman.” The New Criterion 8.4 (Dec 1989): 19-28.

  • Bawer, Bruce. The Middle Generation: The Lives and Poetry of Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, Robert Lowell. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1986.

  • Bayley, John. “John Berryman: A Question of Imperial Sway.” Salmagundi 22-23 (1973): 84-102.

  • Benfey, Christopher. “The Woman in the Mirror: Randall Jarrell and John Berryman.” Men Writing the Feminine: Literature, Theory, and the Question of Genders. Ed. Thais E. Morgan. Albany: State U of NY P, 1994. 123-38.

  • Bloom, Harold. ed. John Berryman. NY: Chelsea, 1989.

  • Conarroe, Joel. John Berryman: an Introduction to the Poetry. NY: Columbia U P, 1977.

  • Davis, Kathe. “The Freedom of John Berryman.” Modern Language Studies 18.4 (Fall 1988): 33-60.

  • Dickey, James. From Babel to Byzantium: Poets and Poetry Now (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1968)

  • Haffenden, John. John Berryman, a Critical Commentary. NY: NY U P, 1980.

  • Halliday, E. M. ed. John Berryman and the Thirties: A Memoir. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1987.

  • Heyen, William. “John Berryman: A Memoir and an Interview.” Ohio Review 15.2 (1974): 46-65.

  • Hickey, Dona. “John Berryman and the Art of The Dream Songs.” Chicago Review 32.4 (Sprg 1981): 34-43.

  • Kelly, Richard J. “John Berryman: A Ten Year Supplemental Checklist.” Literary Research <7.2-3 (Sprg-Sumr 1982): 65-115.

  • Kelly, Richard J. John Berryman: A Checklist. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1972 (lists works by Berryman, including uncollected poems and recordings, and works about him: reviews, biographical articles, interviews, general critiques and monographs).

  • Levine, Philip. “Mine Own John Berryman.” Gettysburg Review 4.4 (Autm 1991): 533-52.

  • Linebarger, J. M. John Berryman. NY: Twayne Publishers 1974.

  • Mariani, Paul. “‘My Heavy Daughter’: John Berryman and the Making of The Dream Songs.” Kenyon Review 10.3 (Sumr 1988): 1-30.

  • Martz, William J. John Berryman. Minneapolis, U of Minnesota P 1969.

  • McClatchy, J. D. “John Berryman: The Impediments to Salvation.” Modern Poetry Studies 6 (1975): 246-77.

  • McGuire, Jerry. “John Berryman: Making a Poem of the Self.” Modern Poetry Studies 10.2-3 (1981): 174-89.

  • Phillips, Robert. The Confessional Poets (Carbondale, Il.: Southern Illinois University, 1973)

  • Provost, Sarah. “Erato’s Fool and Bitter Sister: Two Aspects of John Berryman.” Twentieth Century Literature 30.1 (Sprg 1984): 69-79.

  • Shapiro, Alan. “‘A living to fail’: The Case of John Berryman.” TriQuarterly 58 (Fall 1983): 114-25.

  • Stefanik, Ernest C. John Berryman: A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh U of Pittsburgh Press, 1974 (the standard bibliography, scrupulously edited).

  • Stitt, Peter. ed. “A Special Feature on John Berryman.” Gettysburg Review 4.4 (Autn 1991).

  • Triggs, Jeffery A. “Dream Songs and Nightmare Songs: The Balance of Style in the Later Poems of John Berryman.” South Dakota Review 26.2 (Sumr 1988): 57-70.

  • Young, Kevin. “Responsible Delight: Revaluation: John Berryman.” Kenyon Review 21.2 (Sprg 1999): 160-69.