Berryman John - John Berryman: centenary essays

M o d e r n P o e t r y

Series editors:
David Ayers, David Herd & Jan Montefiore, University of Kent

Volume 11

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Oxford Bern Berlin Bruxelles Frankfurt am Main New York Wien

Philip Coleman and Peter Campion (eds)

John Berryman

Centenary Essays

PETER LANG

Oxford Bern Berlin Bruxelles Frankfurt am Main New York Wien

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Cover image: Siah Armajani, Tomb for John Berryman, 2014 2016 Siah Armajani/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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About the author

Philip Coleman is an Associate Professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin, where he is also a Fellow. His most recent publications include John Berrymans Public Vision: Relocating The Scene of Disorder and Berrymans Fate: A Centenary Celebration in Verse (2014). He also co-edited After thirty Falls: New Essays on John Berryman (2007). With Calista McRae, he is currently coediting a selection of John Berrymans literary correspondence.
Peter Campion is the author of three collections of poems, Other People, The Lions and El Dorado, as well as numerous catalogue essays and art monographs on contemporary painters. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rome Prize (Prix de Rome) from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, he directs the MFA programme in creative writing at the University of Minnesota.

About the book

Drawing on the proceedings of two conferences organized to celebrate the centenary of John Berrymans birth in 2014, John Berryman: Centenary Essays provides new perspectives on a major US American poets work by critics from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. In addition to new readings of important aspects of Berrymans development including his creative and scholarly encounters with Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and W. B. Yeats the book gives fresh accounts of his engagements with contemporaries such as Delmore Schwartz and Randall Jarrell. It also includes essays that explore Berrymans poetic responses to Mozart and his influence on the contemporary Irish poet Paul Muldoon. Making extensive use of unpublished archival sources, personal reflections by friends and former students of the poet are accompanied by meditations on Berrymans importance for writers today by award-winning poets Paula Meehan and Henri Cole. Encompassing a wide range of scholarly perspectives and introducing several emerging voices in the field of Berryman studies, this volume affirms a major poets significance and points to new directions for critical study and creative engagement with his work.

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M o d e r n P o e t r y

Series editors:
David Ayers, David Herd & Jan Montefiore, University of Kent

The Modern Poetry series brings together scholarly work on modern and contemporary poetry. As well as examining the sometimes neglected art of recent poetry, this series also sets modern poetry in the context of poetic history and in the context of other literary and artistic disciplines. Poetry has traditionally been considered the highest of the arts, but in our own time the scholarly tendency to treat literature as discourse or document sometimes threatens to obscure its specific vitalities.

The Modern Poetry series aims to provide a platform for the full range of scholarly work on modern poetry, including work with an intercultural or interdisciplinary methodology. We invite submissions on all aspects of modern and contemporary poetry in English, and will also consider work on poetry in other language traditions. The series is nondogmatic in its approach, and includes both mainstream and marginal topics. We are especially interested in work which brings new intellectual impetus to recognised areas (such as feminist poetry and linguistically innovative poetry) and also in work that makes a stimulating case for areas which are neglected.

For further details please contact Professor David Ayers (D.S.Ayers@kent.ac.uk), Professor David Herd (D.Herd@kent.ac.uk) or oxford@peterlang.com.

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