Berryman's Sickness Unto Death
In his copy of Søren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death, John Berryman inserted a handwritten note entitled Sense of Guilt, which ends in an existential prayer: I tremble I am afraid Jesus, Son of God, help me. Twenty years later, Berryman published one of his most substantial collec...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2018]
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2018, Volume: 67, Issue: 2, Pages: 361-378 |
RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture TJ Modern history TK Recent history |
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CHRISTIANITY & literature
B Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) B DREAM Songs, The (Poem : Berryman) B Søren Kierkegaard B KIERKEGAARD, Soren, 1813-1855 B Influence B BERRYMAN, John, 1914-1972 B Dream Songs B John Berryman |
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Summary: | In his copy of Søren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death, John Berryman inserted a handwritten note entitled Sense of Guilt, which ends in an existential prayer: I tremble I am afraid Jesus, Son of God, help me. Twenty years later, Berryman published one of his most substantial collections of poetry: 77 Dream Songs. And though the Dream Songs were published long after Berryman left his anxious comments in The Sickness Unto Death, I argue that they enact a struggle with the Christian concepts of despair and the self as Berryman learned them from Kierkegaard. |
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ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333117705668 |