John Berryman (1914 - 1972)

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John Berryman was born John Smith in MacAlester, Oklahoma, in 1914. He received an undergraduate degree from Columbia College in 1936 and attended Cambridge University on a fellowship. He taught at Wayne State University in Detroit and went on to occupy posts at Harvard and Princeton. From 1955 until his death in 1972, he was a professor at the University of Minnesota. His early work was published in a volume entitled Five Young American Poets in 1940 and reflects the influences of the Briti.. Continue..

Some of John Berryman Poems

The Curse

Dream Song 14: Life, friends, is boring

The Ball Poem

The Traveller

Dream Song 1: Huffy Henry hid the day

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Quote from Author

	I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

- John Berryman

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