The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz
$70.02
- Paperback
736 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2026
Summary
When Delmore Schwartz published his first short story, “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities,” in Partisan Review in 1937, he became an instant literary celebrity. After the appearance of his first book (by the same name), he was inundated with praise. The famed poet Allen Tate wrote to him, “Your poetic style is beyond any doubt the first real innovation that we’ve had since Eliot and Pound,” and T. S. Eliot himself wrote Schwartz a letter asking him to compose more poetry.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780374613938 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0374613931 |
| Author: | Delmore Schwartz |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Imprint: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 736 |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 824g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 147mm x 225mm |
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Critics Review
“The emblematic tortured poet, Schwartz is worth reading not simply for what he achieved but for what he made possible.” –Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker
“Unearthed here is Schwartz’s masterpiece, a two-part autobiographical poem in free verse, ‘Genesis, ’ which he worked on for more than a decade. It’s so squirming and alive that it will, I suspect, be the rock upon which future considerations of Schwartz will stand.” –Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review
“In bringing out The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz, editor Ben Mazer has given the 21st century a necessary and welcome gift … Let’s hope that this book will provide an overdue and well deserved third act for the poetry of one of the 20th century’s poetic masters.” –Jim Kates, Arts Fuse
Delmore Schwartz
Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His books include Shenandoah and Other Verse Plays; the works of poetry Genesis: Book One and Summer Knowledge; and the short-fiction collections The World Is a Wedding and Successful Love and Other Stories. Schwartz taught at Syracuse, Princeton, and Kenyon College, and received the Bollingen Prize in 1959.
Ben Mazer is the author of ten collections of poetry and the editor of The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom and Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman, among other works. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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