...Bernard Duffey The Stock of Available Reality: R. P. Blackmur and John Berryman . By Bloom James D. . Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press , 1984 . Pp. 7 , 216 . $24.50 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 204 The South Atlantic Quarterly Degree Zero, Roland...

...Edward Stone Stephen Crane . By Berryman John . American Men of Letters Series . New York : William Sloane Associates , 1950 . Pp. 347 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 440 The South Atlantic Quarterly scholarship which it demonstrates. Melville s...

...Jo Brantley Berryman Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Mauberley, Logopoeia, and the Language of Modernism Jo Brantley Berryman In a letter to Felix Schelling in 1922 Pound described his work in progress: The first 11 Cantos are preparation of the palette. I have to get down all...

...Charles Berryman Updike and Contemporary Witchcraft Charles Berryman What happens when an author with the talent and reputation of John Updike writes a novel about contemporary witches? How are the conven­ tions of realism stretched to include the supernatural? Is witchcraft a con­ vincing image...

...Charles Berryman Ragtime in Retrospect Charles Berryman A chorus of praise greeted the publication of E. L. Doctorow s Rag­ time in the summer of 1975: No recent novelist has brought such possibilities together in a big popular book. (Newsweek, 14 July 1975) A unique and beautiful work of art...

... contest that Blackmur and Berryman, each in his own way, posed against such orthodoxy and, for Mr. Bloom, a reinvesting of poetic outside the modernist canon in such figures as Milton, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Keats, the better to free his own enterprise. Post-modern is not a term that Mr. Bloom uses...

... the Academy contemporaneously recognized as the analytical chemist of the subcon­ scious might be considered a supererogatory task; in any circumstances, certainly an unenviable one. Mr. Berryman has, notwithstanding, pre­ sented both. In the first pursuit, he is consciously hampered by the incompleteness...

... that is most intriguing and valuable precisely because it fails to remain authoritative. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY DAVID SIMPSON The Stock of Available Reality: R. P. Blackmur and John Berryman. By James D. Bloom. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 1984. Pp. 7, 216. $24.50. James Bloom s book is both...

.... by Berryman John , with illustrations by Michael Ayrton, $1.15 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Book Reviews 593 a high degree of equality among the whites. Southerners, most of them moderates at heart, were brought reluctantly to secession and war by what seemed to them...

... of the literary greats of Europe, as well as with lowly Bowery bums in his earlier years, he was essentially a man alone, rootless. John Berryman, in his Stephen Crane, says that the young man was one of the new race of displaced Americans. 2 He was proud of his family s New Jersey history, which was rather...

... (Milan: Il Saggiatore). Jo Brantley Berryman teaches modern literature and directs the Poetry Series at California Institute of the Arts. Her Circe s Craft: Ezra Pound s Hugh Selwyn Mauberley has recently been published by the UMI Re­ search Press. T. C. Duncan Eaves is Professor of English...

... argument of his book, which he ex­ tends to include T. S. Eliot s Waste Land, W. C. Williams s Patterson, Hart Crane s Bridge, Charles Olsen s Maximus Poems, John Berryman s Dream Songs, Allen Ginsberg s Fall of America, and Wallace Stevens s theory (and apparent literary intention) in Notes toward...

... is the confessional, illus­ trated by writers as different in other respects as Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Theodore Roethke, John Berryman, and Anne Sexton. These writers share a commitment to intense and personal sub­ ject matter. In its darkest aspect, their work is tied too much into the knot...

... for the thinking men and women of our time. It no longer seems likely that, as a few critics predicted only a short while ago, Melville can ever again be relegated to the second rank'of American authorship. Tyrus Hillway. Stephen Crane. By John Berryman. American Men of Letters Series. New York: William Sloane...

..., illus­ trated by writers as different in other respects as Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Theodore Roethke, John Berryman, and Anne Sexton. These writers share a commitment to intense and personal sub­ ject matter. In its darkest aspect, their work is tied too much into the knot of neurosis...

..., Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, and Berryman, and an Envoi that skims over works by a number of contemporary poets. That may order the material of God Be With the Clown, but it cannot organize it. Humor in the Works of Some American Poets would be a much more accurate subtitle than Humor in American Poetry...

... the American poets. Another equally formidable section reveals a widely used symbolic language of geography and travel which had first been Book Reviews 355 practiced by Auden. (Auden is shown as a major influence and initiator among a group of poets which includes J. Berryman, J. M. Brinnin, H. Chisholm, R...

...Cushing Strout Book Reviews 355 practiced by Auden. (Auden is shown as a major influence and initiator among a group of poets which includes J. Berryman, J. M. Brinnin, H. Chisholm, R. Fitzgerald, R. Jarrell, H. Nemerov, F. Prokosch, K. Rexroth, R. P. Warren, and many more.) An appropriate...

... illustrations. $14.95) is the sort of volume that seems to have become obligatory. Soon, no doubt, we shall have similar tributes to Ransom, Berryman, and Sexton. But at some point these memorial books will have to stop, for probably even the most hectic publishing schedule cannot keep pace with the mortal­ ity...

.... Wallace further handicaps himself with a weak organization: an Introduction, followed by chapters on Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, and Berryman, and an Envoi that skims over works by a number of contemporary poets. That may order the material of God Be With the Clown, but it cannot organize...