Two Americas and a Scotland
Nicholas Everett, 27 September 1990
Collected Poems, 1937-1971
by John Berryman, edited by Charles Thornbury.
Faber, 348 pp., £17.50, February 1990,0 571 14317 2 Show More
by John Berryman, edited by Charles Thornbury.
Faber, 348 pp., £17.50, February 1990,
“... while still an undergraduate at Columbia, where Mark Van Doren was his teacher and mentor; and Robert Penn Warren was the editor (at Southern Review) whom he first sought to impress. But if the New Critical aesthetic disciplined Berryman it also inhibited him. It gave him a good technical training, but its insistence on what he later called ‘Eliot’s ... ”