A Partial List of Things John Berryman Found Delicious

Saul Bellow’s “Leaving the Yellow House”[1]


His own poetry[2]


Autolycus of The Winter’s Tale, deemed an “irrelevance”[3]


“Bunny,” met in London[4]


The Irish, who “all speak English and are blazing with self-respect”[5]


A stone[6]


A breeze[7]


Theodore Roethke’s detail[8]


A tribute, written by T. S. Eliot, about Ralph Hodgson[9]


Dialogue in Don Quixote[10]


An unspecified “new taste sensation”[11]


Your “end”[12]


An unspecified “author,” also “rational & passionate”[13]


The body of a married woman, seen in a restaurant[14]


His friend Ernest Milton Halliday’s marks at Columbia University[15]


Risk[16]

[1] Saul Bellow’s forward to Recovery/Delusions, Etc.
[2] Saul Bellow’s forward to Recovery/Delusions, Etc.
[3] Berryman’s Shakespeare
[4] Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman
[5] Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman
[6] “Dream Song 121”
[7] “Dream Song 339”
[8] Freedom of the Poet
[9] Freedom of the Poet
[10] Freedom of the Poet
[11] “Gislebertus’ Eve”
[12] “Shirley & Auden”
[13] “A Prayer for the Self”
[14] “Dream Song 4”
[15] John Berryman and the Thirties: A Memoir
[16] Stephen Crane

Elon Green is a freelance writer who oftentimes contributes to The Awl.