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What John Berryman’s Lectures Revealed About Young Shakespeare—and Himself

As John Berryman’s first marriage was falling apart, his attention turned to the subject of Shakespeare’s youth. It was the spring of 1951 and Berryman, thirty-six years old, was not yet a poet of national renown. Things were looking up,

What John Berryman’s Lectures Revealed About Young Shakespeare—and Himself

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