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The first complete collection of the poetry of Delmore Schwartz, "the most underrated poet of the twentieth century" (John Berryman).When Delmore Schwartz published his first short story, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, " in Partisan Review in 1937, he became an instant literary celebrity. After the appearance of his first book (by the same name), he was inundated with praise. The famed poet Allen Tate wrote to him, "Your poetic style is be...

Fiercely original and in the tradition of T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden.

With his New Directions debut in 1938, the twenty-five-year-old Delmore Schwartz was hailed as a genius and among the most promising writers of his generation. Yet he died in relative obscurity in 1966, wracked by mental illness and substance abuse. Sadly, his literary legacy has been overshadowed by the story of his tragic life. Among poets, Schwartz was a prototype for the confessional movement made famous by his slightly younger friends Rob...

With some changes in the contents-most notably the addition of sixteen recently discovered poems-Last & Lost Poems is a paperbound version of the highly praised 1979 Vanguard Press publication. That book disclosed that between 1958 and 1966, despite his disintegrating life, Delmore Schwartz was indeed working and producing poems full of the special magic that had propelled him early on into the literary limelight. Commenting on it, Richard Wil...

When this book was first published (as Summer Knowledge) in 1959. Delmore Schwartz was still riding a crest, the golden boy of the literary scene-a position he had commanded ever since the appearance of his first collection of stories and poems in 1938. Summer Knowledge won for him both the prestigious Bollingen Prize in Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award. lronically, indeed tragically, the praise and prizes Schw...

Delmore Schwartz was the golden boy of the American literary scene until his untimeley death in 1966, alone and destitute. James Laughlin was the founder of New Directions, publisher and editor of the Modernists. This collection chronicles a correspondence that began with Schwartz's first unsolicited submission to Laughlin in 1937 and continued throughout the friendship that lasted until the poet's death. The relationship that developed betwee...

Now with an exciting new preface by Lou Reed (Delmore Schwartz's student at Syracuse), In Dreams Begin Responsibilities collects eight of Schwartz's finest delineations of New York's intellectuals in the 1930s and 1940s. As no other writer can, Schwartz captures the speech, the generational conflicts, the mocking self-analysis of educated, ambitious, Depression-stymied young people at odds with their immigrant parents. This is the unique Ameri...

Poeta e scrittore ineguagliabile, personaggio versatile e affascinante, nonché autodistruttivo, tanto da finire i suoi giorni solo e alcolizzato in uno squallido albergo di New York, Delmore Schwartz è a tutti gli effetti una figura leggendaria della letteratura statunitense. John Berryman e Robert Lowell gli dedicarono alcune poesie, Lou Reed, che lo ebbe come professore alla Siracuse University, gli dedicò una canzone (European Son) e Saul B...

Delmore Schwartz, einer der großen amerikanischen Autoren des vorigen Jahrhunderts, erzählt mit virtuoser Leichtigkeit aus der Welt der Einwanderer im New York Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts.Schwartz, in Brooklyn geboren, stammte aus einer Familie rumänisch-jüdischer Einwanderer, und die Lebens- und Alltagswelt der Einwanderer in ihren Stadvierteln gehört zu seinen wichtigsten (und schönsten) literarischen Themen. Auch die vier Erzählungen aus 'D...

Five verse plays written in the tradition of T.S. Elliot and W.H. Auden.

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Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) was one of the finest writers of his generation. Winner of the prestigious Bollingen prize and the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award, he was hailed by John Ashbery as "one of the major twentieth-century poets." Schwartz's stories were also widely read and loved, admired by James Atlas for their "unique style that enabled Schwartz to depict his characters with a sort of childlike verisimilitude." Gr...

Now, The Ego Is Always at the Wheel, a collection of nineteen essays, presents the poet as a humorist of no mean accomplishment.