The Dream Songs

About this book

The Dream Songs is widely seen as Berrymans 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 Berrymans idiosyncratic reworking of the sonnet remains more or less constant. Combining all of Berrymans earlier 77 Dream Songs (which won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize) and His 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 Berrymans "dream diary." The book also has an index of first lines an index of titles and a note by the author.