TY - JOUR
AU - Hardy, Barbara
AB - Re-reading Berry man: Power and Solicitation Barbara Hardy The new edition of Berryman's Collected Poems 1937-1971 does not include all the poems written, or even published, between these years. It is described as a collection of those volumes arranged by the poet himself, with the exception of 9 poems published with 11 others as 'Twenty Poems' in Five Young American Poets (1940), and The Dream Songs which have a volume to themselves. The poems in the posthumous volume Henry's Fate and Other Poems (1976) are omitted, because the poet was not responsible for the collection, though he had published some of them in magazines. Some are essential reading, including a group about fellow-alcoholics, some hitherto unpublished dream songs (not in the new edition of Dream Songs), some of his most individually desperate poems of despair and struggle against despair, including his last poem, written about not committing suicide, just before he did commit suicide, 'I don't. And I didn't. Sharp the Spanish blade...', and one of his better religious poems, 'Phase Four'. Charles Thornbury's introduction to the Collected Poems quotes freely some suppressed poems from Love & Fame (1971), Berryman's most notoriously revelatory and indulgent book, usefully draws on 
TI - Re-reading Berryman: Power and Solicitation
JF - English
DO - 10.1093/english/40.166.37
DA - 1991-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/re-reading-berryman-power-and-solicitation-g93gbRuVHt
SP - 37
EP - 46
VL - 40
IS - 166
DP - DeepDyve
ER -