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Entries: Antihero - His "Henry Pussycat" in Dream Songs (1969) is listed as an example of the type. Confessional Poetry - Listed as a notable example of a confessional poet. Elegy - His "Formal Elegy" is listed as a notable English elegy. Minstrel Show - "In John Berryman's The Dream Songs, there is a character named Mr. Bones, who is partly a minstrel show figure and partly the central character's skeleton." Period of Confession and Postmodernism in American Literature - Listed among older writers who joined younger authors in practicing "an intensely personal poetry of a marked confessional quality." Song - His poems called "dream songs" are listed among other works that cannot be sung in the usual sense. Sonnet - Listed among poets "generally credited with writing some of the best sonnets in America." Also listed among poets to have "done distinguished work in the sonnet sequence in this century."