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DELMORE SCHWARTZ: from his glorification as the golden boy of the
American literary scene to his untimely death in 1966, alone and
destitute. JAMES LAUGHLIN: founder of New Directions, publisher and
editor of the modernists. This collection chronicles a
correspondence that began with the poet's first unsolicited
submission to New Directions in 1937, and continued throughout the
tempestuous friendship that lasted until the poet's death. The
relationship that developed between them was both literary, steeped
in their own work and that of their contemporaries, and personal:
gifted storytellers, they delighted each other with factual and
fictional observations. The two remained friends and colleagues
until the mental illness that eventually claimed him began to
destroy Schwartz's ability to trust even those closest to him. Here
follows the highs and lows of a relationship between two
extraordinary personalities.
Now with an exciting new preface by rock musician Lou Reed (Delmore
Schwartz s student at Syracuse), In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
collects eight of Schwartz s finest delineations of New York s
intellectuals in the 1930s and 1940s. As no other writer can,
Schwartz captures the speech, the generational conflicts, the
mocking self-analysis of educated, ambitious, Depression-stymied
young people at odds with their immigrant parents. This is the
unique American dilemma Irving Howe described as that interesting
point where intellectual children of immigrant Jews are finding
their way into the larger world while casting uneasy, rueful
glances over their backs. Afterwords by James Atlas and Irving Howe
place the stories in their historical and cultural setting."
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