A Partial List of Things John Berryman Found Delicious

By Elon Green

Arts & Culture

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  • 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 foreward to Recovery/Delusions, Etc.
[2]Saul Bellow’s foreward 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.

 

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