John and Henry
Christopher Reid, 2 December 1982
The Life of John Berryman
by John Haffenden.
Routledge, 451 pp., £15, September 1982,0 7100 9216 4 Show More
by John Haffenden.
Routledge, 451 pp., £15, September 1982,
Poets in their Youth: A Memoir
by Eileen Simpson.
Faber, 272 pp., £10.95, September 1982,0 571 11925 5 Show More
by Eileen Simpson.
Faber, 272 pp., £10.95, September 1982,
“... 1926, apparently by suicide; his mother then married the family lodger, a man called Berryman; the young boy was sent to a boarding-school, a sport-fixated establishment at which he was never happy, and completed his American education at Columbia College, New York; he took up a scholarship to Cambridge (England) from 1936 to 1938, returning to America and a ... ”