
The complete Dream Songs--hypnotic, seductive, masterful--as thrilling to read now as they ever were


This edition combines "The Dream Songs," awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965, and "His Toy, His Dream, His Rest," which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969 and contains all 385 songs. Of "The Dream Songs," A. Alvarez wrote in "The Observer," "A major achievement."...


This edition combines 77 Dream Songs , awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965, and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest , which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969. It contains 385 songs, an index of first lines, an index of titles, and a note by the author.In his essay...

The Dream Songs is 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,...





