The Dream Songs - Tapa blanda

American poet John Berryman's long sequence, "The Dream Songs", ranges in tone from the ruefully comic to the blisteringly angry, to the tragic - sometimes within the compass of a single poem.

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.