The Dream Songs

The Dream Songsis widely seen as Berryman's masterpiece, an impressively vast and varied collection of poems that is in itself a single, sprawling, ever-shifting poem. The songs in this great work are thus offered in many different tones, moods, and guises, although their form, Berryman's idiosyncratic reworking of the sonnet, remains more or less constant. Combining all of Berryman's earlier77 Dream Songs(which won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize) andHis Toy, His Dream, His Rest(which won the 1969 National Book Award), this one-volume edition contains no fewer than 385 entries in what the critic Denis Donoghue has called Berryman's "dream diary." The book also has an index of first lines, an index of titles, and a note by the author.Berryman, John is the author of 'The Dream Songs', published 1969 under ISBN 9780374143978 and ISBN 0374143978.