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Back cover: "In July of 1966 the New York literary community was shocked to learn that a heart-attack victim found in a Broadway hotel had been identified as the poet Delmore Schwartz. It was a tragic story. From the appearance of his first book of poems and stores, \_In Dreams Begin Responsibilities\_, in 1938, Schwartz had been the golden boy, a young culture-hero, of the liberal intellectuals. A series of remarkable books - the autobiographical \_Genesis\_, the play \_Shenandoah\_, the stories of \_The World Is A Wedding\_, and others - confirmed his reputation. Then a cruel mental illness took hold which wrecked his academic career and alienated him from the friends who tried in vain to help. A poet must be judged by his work, not the circumstances of his life. As this selection from his earlier books which he made himself and published in 1959 as \_Summer Knowledge\_ clearly demonstrates, Delmore Schwartz's secure position among the foremost poets of his generation. But, in a dramatic way - and it was always one of the touchstones of his art that he could dramatize ideas in poetry as few others could - the tragedy of his later life and lonely death are inseparable from his wor

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Author

Delmore Schwartz

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

1967

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811201919

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.94 / 5 (185 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14