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BERRYMAN, John (1914-1972). The Dispossessed. New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc., 1948.
8o. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine (endpapers slightly discolored, minor edgewear); printed dust jacket (very minor edgewear). Provenance: JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1884-1974), American poet and educator (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION, A FINE LITERARY ASSOCIATION COPY, FROM POET TO POET, INSCRIBED BY BERRYMAN TO JOHN CROWE RANSOM on the front free endpaper: "John Crowe Ransom with thanks for old encouragement & the serious wish he wd write some poems John Berryman 21 April 1948."
Berryman and Ransom knew each other professionally and shared an admiration for each other's work. As founding editor of The Kenyon Review, Ransom published many of Berryman's works, especially in the years leading up to the publication of The Dispossessed. Berryman rated Ransom among the few American poets he admired and Ransom's poetry, and that of other "Southern Fugitive" poets, influenced his early work. Berryman frequently included Ransom's work in his own public readings and solicited contributions from him while poetry editor of The Nation. Berryman is known for his almost agonizingly self-revealing poetry. He committed suicide in 1972. Stefanik A4.
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FIRST EDITION, A FINE LITERARY ASSOCIATION COPY, FROM POET TO POET, INSCRIBED BY BERRYMAN TO JOHN CROWE RANSOM on the front free endpaper: "John Crowe Ransom with thanks for old encouragement & the serious wish he wd write some poems John Berryman 21 April 1948."
Berryman and Ransom knew each other professionally and shared an admiration for each other's work. As founding editor of The Kenyon Review, Ransom published many of Berryman's works, especially in the years leading up to the publication of The Dispossessed. Berryman rated Ransom among the few American poets he admired and Ransom's poetry, and that of other "Southern Fugitive" poets, influenced his early work. Berryman frequently included Ransom's work in his own public readings and solicited contributions from him while poetry editor of The Nation. Berryman is known for his almost agonizingly self-revealing poetry. He committed suicide in 1972. Stefanik A4.