John Berryman’s ‘Homage to Mistress Bradstreet’: A Modernist Reimagining of Anne Bradstreet

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FSG, paperback

Publication Date: January 01, 1956

Publisher Marketing:

This volume represents the first appearance in paperback of one of America’s most outstanding poets, John Berryman. It contains, besides the long title poem, Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, the major portion of Short Poems; a selection from The Dispossessed, which drew on two earlier collections; some poems from His Thought Made Pockets & The Plane Buckt; and one poem from Sonnets.

It seems to me the most distinguished long poem by an American since The Waste Land. – Edmund Wilson

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