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  <name><![CDATA[John Berryman]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[John Allyn Berryman (originally John Allyn Smith) was an American poet, born in McAlester, Oklahoma. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and often considered one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry. He was the author of The Dream Songs, which are playful, witty, and morbid. Berryman committed suicide in 1972.

Of his youthful self he said, 'I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.']]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Yeats]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>McAlester, Oklahoma</hometown>  <born_at>10/25/1914</born_at>  <died_at>01/07/1972</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Dream Songs]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[77 Dream Songs]]></title>
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  <published>1964</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[John Berryman: Collected Poems 1937-1971]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Homage to Mistress Bradstreet]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[John Berryman: Selected Poems]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Recovery]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Berryman]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Berryman's Sonnets]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Love &amp; fame (Noonday)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Berryman]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Berryman's Shakespeare]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[His Toy, His Dream, His Rest: 308 Dream Songs]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Berryman]]></name>
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