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020    9780268108410|q(hardcover) 
020    0268108412|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)1137838238 
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050  4 PS3503.E744|bZ885 2020 
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100 1  Samway, Patrick H.,|eauthor. 
245 10 John Berryman and Robert Giroux :|ba publishing friendship
       /|cPatrick Samway, S.J. 
264  1 Notre Dame, Indiana :|bUniversity of Notre Dame Press,
       |c[2020] 
264  4 |c©2020 
300    xv, 268 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and 
       index. 
505 0  The early years and Columbia College -- The post-Columbia 
       years -- Berryman's Princeton years -- The new beginning 
       at Farrar, Straus & Giroux -- Fron anxiety to 
       reconciliation -- Working on another book of the Dream 
       Songs -- The final years of collaboration. 
520 8  This engaging study provides new perspectives on the lives
       and work of two major figures in American poetry and 
       publishing in the second half of the twentieth century: 
       Robert Giroux (1914-2008), editor-in-chief of Harcourt, 
       Brace and Company and later of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 
       and John Berryman (1914-1972), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
       and Shakespearean scholar who also received a National 
       Book Award and a Bollingen Prize for Poetry. From their 
       first meeting as undergraduates at Columbia College in New
       York City in the early 1930s, Giroux and Berryman became 
       lifelong friends and publishing partners. Patrick Samway 
       received unprecedented access to Giroux's letters and 
       essays. By incorporating either sections or whole letters 
       of the correspondence between Berryman and Giroux into 
       this book, Samway makes available for the first time a 
       historical account of their relationship, including 
       revealing portraits of their personal lives. As Giroux 
       edited over a dozen books by Berryman, his letters to the 
       poet were often filled with editorial details and 
       pertinent observations, emanating from his genuine 
       affection for his friend, whose talent he never doubted, 
       even as Berryman endured prolonged periods of 
       hospitalization due to his alcoholism. Giroux gave 
       Berryman the greatest gift he could: sustained 
       encouragement to continue writing without trying to 
       manipulate or discourage him in any way. But Giroux also 
       had a deep-seated secret desire to surpass the essays 
       written about Shakespeare by Berryman, as well as the book
       on Shakespeare written by their mutual professor Mark Van 
       Doren. Giroux's volume, The Book Known as Q: A 
       Consideration of Shakespeare's Sonnets, was finally 
       published in 1982. Samway's fascinating account of a 
       gifted but troubled poet and his devoted yet conflicted 
       editor will interest fans of Berryman and all readers and 
       students of American poetry. 
600 10 Berryman, John,|d1914-1972. 
600 10 Giroux, Robert. 
650  0 Poets, American|y20th century|vBiography. 
650  0 Book editors|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Authors and publishers|zUnited States. 
650  0 Authors and publishers. 
994    C0|bWHP 
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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  920 SAMWAY    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  070 SAM    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B BERRYMAN JOHN S    Check Shelf