%0 Journal Article
%T Berryman's Sickness Unto Death
%A Alex Mouw
%J Christianity & Literature
%@ 2056-5666
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0148333117705668
%X In his copy of S£¿ren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death, John Berryman inserted a handwritten note entitled ¡°Sense of Guilt,¡± which ends in an existential prayer: ¡°I tremble ¡ª I am afraid ¡ª 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
%K John Berryman
%K S£¿ren Kierkegaard
%K Dream Songs
%K Influence
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0148333117705668