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opyright © 1940, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1964, 1966by John Berryman, copyright © renewed 1972 by John Berryman. Copy-right © 1951, 1953, i9<^o, 1965, 1966, 1975, 1976 by Kate Berryman, copy-right © renewed 1973, 1975, 1976 by Kate Berryman. All rights reservedFirst printing, 1976Published simultaneously m Canadaby McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., TorontoDesigned by Guy Fleming Grateful acknowledgment to reprint is made to Houghton Mifflin, Little, Brown;New American Library, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, Simon & Schuster, TridentPress, World Publishing Company, and to the editors of American Review22, The American Scholar, Commentary, The Hudson Review, The KenyonReview, The New York Tmfes, Partisan Review, and Sewanee Review. Introduc-tion to The Monk by Matthew G. Lewis is reprinted with the permission of theGrove Press, copyright © 1952 by Grove Press, Inc. ‘‘Stephen Crane’s The RedBadge of Courage^’ is reprinted from The American Novel from James FenmoreCooper to Wtlkam Faulkner, edited by Wallace Stegner, © 1965 by Basic Books,Inc, and used with the permission of the publisher. The essays on Macbeth, IsaacBabel, Crane’s The Open Boat, Hemingway, and T. S. Eliot are reprinted in re-vised form from The Arts of Reading, co-edited by Ralph Ross, Allen Tate, andJohn Berryman, by permission of the publishers, copyright © 1960 by Thomasy. Crowell, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication DataBerryman, John, 1914-1972.The freedom of the poet.I. English literature-History and criticism2. American literature— History and criticism.
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