Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 489
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ISBN-10 : 9780374722692
ISBN-13 : 0374722692
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Delmore Schwartz by : James Atlas

Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet is based on interviews, letters, and an extraordinary collection of unpublished papers that had never before been examined. Delmore Schwartz was only twenty-four in 1938 when his first book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, was published. He received praise from T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. For Tate, it was “the only genuine innovation we’ve had since Eliot and Pound.” A decade later, the short-story collection The World Is a Wedding was published; many critics characterized it as the definitive portrait of their generation. In this biography, the first about the man whom John Berryman called “the most underrated poet of the twentieth century,” James Atlas traces Schwartz’s history, from the arrival of his Romanian ancestors in New York, to his youth in Washington Heights, to his career at Harvard as a graduate student in philosophy, and onward to the flowering of his generation in the '40s, when he and the critics, poets, and novelists who were his friends made their reputations. Schwartz’s brilliant satires of his friends and acquaintances, his autobiographical stories, and his letters to his illustrious peers contribute to this vivid portrait of an era—and of that era’s most trenchant chronicler.

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 0811206807
ISBN-13 : 9780811206808
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories by : Delmore Schwartz

Eight stories portray the world of the New York intellectual during the 1930s and 40s, probing the conflict between ambitious, educated youths and their immigrant parents.

Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz

Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780811224338
ISBN-13 : 0811224333
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz by : Delmore Schwartz

The publication of this book restores a missing chapter in the history of twentieth-century American literature 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.

Selected Poems (1938-1958)

Selected Poems (1938-1958)
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 0811201910
ISBN-13 : 9780811201919
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Selected Poems (1938-1958) by : Delmore Schwartz

"Every point of view, every kind of knowledge and every kind of experience is limited and ignorant: nevertheless so far as l know, this volume seems to me to be as representative as it could be.---Delmore Schwartz

Screeno

Screeno
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Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 0811215733
ISBN-13 : 9780811215732
Rating : 4/5 (33 Downloads)

Synopsis Screeno by : Delmore Schwartz

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. Graced with an introduction by Cynthia Ozick, this New Directions Bibelot, Screeno: Stories and Poems, gathers many of Schwartz's most popular stories and poems, including: Screeno, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, America, America and The Heavy Bear who Goes with Me. Also included is a newly discovered story, The Heights of Joy, which appeared in the magazine Boulevard in 2002. Delmore Schwartz's life is legendary; yet it is his work that endures: What complicates and enriches Schwartz's comedy, says Irving Howe, is, I think, a reaching out toward nobility, a shy aspiring spirituality, a moment or two of achieved purity of feeling.

Letters of Delmore Schwartz

Letters of Delmore Schwartz
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 424
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015008728142
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Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Letters of Delmore Schwartz by : Delmore Schwartz

The World is a Wedding

The World is a Wedding
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Publisher : [Norfolk, Conn.] New Directions [1948]
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015001687121
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Rating : 4/5 (21 Downloads)

Synopsis The World is a Wedding by : Delmore Schwartz

Short stories mostly about Jewish families during the depression.

The Shadow in the Garden

The Shadow in the Garden
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9781101871706
ISBN-13 : 1101871709
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis The Shadow in the Garden by : James Atlas

The biographer—so often in the shadows, kibitzing, casting doubt, proving facts—comes to the stage in this funny, poignant, endearing tale of how writers’ lives get documented. James Atlas, the celebrated chronicler of Saul Bellow and Delmore Schwartz, takes us back to his own childhood in suburban Chicago, where he fell in love with literature and, early on, found in himself the impulse to study writers’ lives. We meet Richard Ellmann, the great biographer of James Joyce and Atlas’s professor during a transformative year at Oxford. We get to know Atlas’s first subject, the “self-doomed” poet Delmore Schwartz. And we are introduced to a bygone cast of intellectuals such as Edmund Wilson and Dwight Macdonald (the “tall pines,” as Mary McCarthy once called them, cut down now, according to Atlas, by the “merciless pruning of mortality”) and, of course, the elusive Bellow, “a metaphysician of the ordinary.” Atlas revisits the lives and works of the classical biographers, the Renaissance writers of what were then called “lives,” Samuel Johnson and the obsessive Boswell, and the Victorian masters Mrs. Gaskell and Thomas Carlyle. And in what amounts to a pocket history of his own literary generation, Atlas celebrates the biographers who hoped to glimpse an image of them—“as fleeting as a familiar face swallowed up in a crowd.” (With black-and-white illustrations throughout)