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Verse Chronicle
Jarrell, Randall | July 17, 1948 issue

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The article focuses on various books on poetry. "Trial of a Poet," by Karl Shapiro, which has been viewed as a disappointment for everyone. The first third of the book, a commonplace and derivative autobiographical series, is a sort of bobby-soxer's "Mauberly;" the long title-poem seems worse than "Essay on Rime," one reviewer commented that it "barely makes sense;" and the separate lyrics, with several partial and one or two complete exceptions, are automatic over the old machinery, the world and the poet look clearly past each other. John Berryman, in his "The Dispossessed," has been viewed as a complicated, nervous, and intelligent writer whose poetry has steadily improved.

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CRITICISM; DISPOSSESSED, The (Book); TRIAL of a Poet (Book); SHAPIRO, Karl; BERRYMAN, John, 1914-1972; POETRY; LITERATURE
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