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Delmore Schwartz
"This book brings together all of Schwartz's poetry for the very first time, from his groundbreaking debut collection to his unpublished late work, which he kept writing until his death."--Provided…
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Richard Grayson
Grayson is a born storyteller and standup talker…Highly recommended.–Library JournalGrayson’s stories are full on insanity, nutty therapists, cancerous relatives, broken homes, fiction workshops, youthful theatricals at Catskill bungalow…
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A. Runchman
Taking as its starting point Delmore Schwartz’s self-appointment as both a ‘poet of the Hudson River’ and ‘laureate of the Atlantic,’ this book comprehensively reassesses the poetic achievement of a…
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Eight stories portray the world of the New York intellectual during the 1930’s and 1940’s, probing the conflict between ambitious, educated youths and their immigrant parents.
With some changes in the contents-most notably the addition of sixteen recently discovered poems-Last & Lost Poems is a paperbound version of the highly praised 1979 Vanguard Press publication. That…
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…
James Atlas
Clear, precise, graceful…(Atlas’) biographical style makes the book read with the pleasure of a good novel.–Leonard Michaels, The New York Times Book Review
The publication of this book restores a missing chapter in the history of twentieth-century American literature
Delmore Schwartz,James Laughlin
Here follows the highs and lows of a relationship between two extraordinary personalities.
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…
Five verse plays written in the tradition of T.S. Elliot and W.H. Auden.
Drawn from the poet’s collected papers at Yale University, these humorous essays touch on topics including taking baths and the meaning of existentialism, the abominations of the telephone, theories of…
A new edition of the definitive book on the depression-era immigrant experience in New York City.
John Crowe Ransom,Delmore Schwartz,John Hall Wheelock
