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Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz

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By (author): Delmore Schwartz

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 Robert Lowell and John Berryman. While his stories and novellas about Jewish American experience laid the groundwork for novels by Saul Bellow (whose Humboldts Gift is based on Schwartzs life) and Philip Roth.

Much of Schwartzs writing has been out of print for decades. This volume aims to restore Schwartz to his proper place in the canon of American literature and give new readers access to the breadth of his achievement. Included are selections from the in-print stories and poems, as well as excerpts from his long unavailable epic poem Genesis, a never-completed book-length work on T. S. Eliot, and unpublished poems from his archives.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 334g
  • Dimensions: 132 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 13 May 2016
  • Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780811224321

About Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) was born and raised in Brooklyn. One of Americas greatest poets and short-story writers Schwartz contributed In Dreams Begin Responsibilities to the first issue of Partisan Review in 1937. Schwartz taught at Syracuse Princeton and Kenyon College and received the Bollingen Prize in 1959. After a difficult period of alchoholism and depression he died of a heart attack in 1966. Craig Morgan Teicher is a poet and critic. His most recent book of poems is To Keep Love Blurry (BOA 2012). He lives with his wife and children in New York City. Pulitzer Prizewinning poet John Ashbery (19272017) translated many French writers including Alfred Jarry Pierre Reverdy and Raymond Roussel. In 2011 he was awarded the National Book Foundations Lifetime Achievement Award.

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