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Once and for all : the best of Delmore Schwartz Cover Image Book Book

Once and for all : the best of Delmore Schwartz / edited, with a preface, by Craig Teicher ; introduction by John Ashbery.

Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966 (Author). Teicher, Craig Morgan, 1979- (editor.). Ashbery, John, 1927- (writer of introduction.).

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  • ISBN: 9780811224321
  • ISBN: 0811224325
  • Physical Description: 293 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First American paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2016.

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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as well as excerpts from his long unavailable epic poem Genesis, a never-completed book-length work on T.S. Eliot, and unpublished poems from his archives"-- Provided by publisher.

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24510. ‡aOnce and for all : ‡bthe best of Delmore Schwartz / ‡cedited, with a preface, by Craig Teicher ; introduction by John Ashbery.
24630. ‡aBest of Delmore Schwartz
250 . ‡aFirst American paperback edition.
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300 . ‡a293 pages ; ‡c21 cm
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500 . ‡a"A New Directions Book."
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520 . ‡a"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"-- ‡cProvided by publisher.
60010. ‡aSchwartz, Delmore, ‡d1913-1966 ‡vLiterary collections.
7001 . ‡aTeicher, Craig Morgan, ‡d1979- ‡eeditor.
7001 . ‡aAshbery, John, ‡d1927- ‡ewriter of introduction.
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