This edition combines "The Dream Songs", awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965, and "His Toy, His Dream, His Rest", which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969 and contains all 385 songs. Of The Dream Songs, A. Alvarez wrote in The Observer, “A major achievement. He has written an elegy on his brilliant generation and, in the process, he has also written an elegy on himself.”