Berryman's last two volumes of poetry, "Love & Fame" and "Delusions, Etc.", featured free-verse poems that were much more straightforward and less idiosyncratic than "The Dream Songs". Before "Love & Fame"'s publication, Berryman sent his manuscript to several peers for feedback, including the poets Adrienne Rich and Richard Wilbur, both of whom were disappointed with the poems, which they considered inferior to those of "The Dream Songs". But some of Berryman's old friends and supporters, including Lowell, the novelist Saul Bellow, and the poet William Meredith, offered high praise for a number of the "Love & Fame" poems. "Love & Fame" and "Delusions, Etc." were more openly "confessional" than Berryman's earlier verse, and also explored the nature of his spiritual rebirth in poems like "Eleven Addresses to the Lord" (which Lowell thought one of Berryman's best poems and "one of the great poems of the age") and "Certainty Before Lunch".