The collected poems of John Berryman, written between 1937 and 1971. Berryman, a poet from a generation of American poets which included Robert Lowell, Randel Jarrell and Elizabeth Bishop, is known for his book of poems, "The Dream Songs", among others.
John Berryman (1914-72) was born John Smith in McAlester, Oklahoma, and educated at Colombia College and Cambridge University. He later held posts at Harvard and Princeton, before taking up a professorship at the University of Minnesota. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for 77 Dream Songs, and he continued to build upon this series of poems, publishing the end result, The Dream Songs, in 1969. His Collected Poems was published after his death in 1991.
