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on T. S. Eliot, and unpublished poems from his archives.
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