Welcome to John Berryman's Poetry
John Berryman was born John Smith in MacAlester, Oklahoma, in 1914. He received an undergraduate degree from Columbia College in 1936 and attended Cambridge University on a fellowship. He taught at Wayne State University in Detroit and went on to occupy posts at Harvard and Princeton. From 1955 until his death in 1972, he was a professor at the University of Minnesota.
His early work was published in a volume entitled Five Young American Poets in 1940 and reflects the influences of the... about John Berryman
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