id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-728 John Berryman - Wikipedia .html text/html 4388 424 73 Smith was jobless at the time, and he and Martha were filing for divorce.[1] Berryman was haunted by his father's death for the rest of his life and wrote about his struggle to come to terms with it in much of his poetry. Berryman's mother also changed her first name from Peggy to Jill.[4] Although his stepfather later divorced his mother, Berryman and his stepfather stayed on good terms.[5] With both his mother and stepfather working, his mother decided to send him to the South Kent School, a private boarding school in Connecticut.[4] Berryman then attended Columbia College, where he was president of the Philolexian Society, joined the Boar's Head Society,[6] edited The Columbia Review, and studied under the literary scholar and poet Mark Van Doren.[4] Berryman later credited Van Doren with sparking his interest in writing poetry seriously. Berryman's early work formed part of a volume titled Five Young American Poets, published by New Directions in 1940".[5] One of the other young poets included in the book was Randall Jarrell. In 2004, the Library of America published John Berryman: Selected Poems, edited by the poet Kevin Young. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-728.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-728.txt