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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.
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