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Once and for all : the best of Delmore Schwartz / edited, with a preface, by Craig Teicher ; introduction by John Ashbery.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780811224321
- ISBN: 0811224325
- Physical Description: 293 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First American paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2016.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A New Directions Book." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary, etc.: | "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 Humboldt's Gift is based on Schwartz's life) and Philip Roth. Much of Schwartz's 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as well as excerpts from his long unavailable epic poem Genesis, a never-completed book-length work on T.S. Eliot, and unpublished poems from his archives"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Subject: | Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966 > Literary collections. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
Author Notes
Once and for All : The Best of Delmore Schwartz
Delmore Schwartz was born on December 8, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York. He later attended the University of Wisconsin, New York University and Harvard University. He was considered one of the most influential Jewish writers during World War II. He wrote poems, short stories, and literary criticism. His works include In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, The Imitation of Life, The World Is a Wedding, and Successful Love and Other Stories. In 1959, he received the Bollingen Prize for Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems. He was an editor for the Partisan Review and The New Republic. He also taught creative writing at several universities including Harvard University, Syracuse University, Princeton University and Kenyon College. He suffered from alcohol addiction and mental illness later in life. He died of a heart attack on July 11, 1966 at the age of 52. (Bowker Author Biography)
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