Word: berrymans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cross with God who has wrecked this generation/First he seized Ted, then Richard, Randall, and now Delmore," wrote poet John Berryman of the deaths of his peers...
...years later, Berryman himself jumped into the frozen waters of the Mississippi River and died...
Some of the leading lights of that older group--Schwartz, Berryman, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop--brought their poetry to Cambridge, and they in turn inspired a new school of Harvard-trained poets...
While these new poets have their own unique styles, they share the common experience of studying at Harvard under teachers such as Robert Fitzgerald, Lowell and Bishop. And these poets also say they grew up with the legacy of writers like Berryman and Schwartz, who did not survive long enough to teach the new generation...
Eileen Simpson, Berryman's wife, agrees that the older generation of literary artists used their writing to help them survive their many difficult experiences. In her book, Poets in Their Youth, she writes that for her husband, "the only thing was to write poetry. All else was wasted time...