Schwartz, Delmore
Schwartz, Delmore( 1913–66),Brooklynborn poet, critic, and teacher, graduated from New York University (1935), and was an editor of Partisan Review (1943–55). His books include In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (1938), poems; a translation of Rimbaud's A Season in Hell (1939); Shenandoah (1941), a verse play; Genesis (1943), a tale in prose and poetry about the identity of an American Jew; Vaudeville for a Princess (1950), poems; Summer Knowledge (1959, Bollingen Prize), collecting the poems in his first volume, selecting some from other early books, and adding new works; and collections of stories, The World Is a Wedding (1948) and Successful Love (1961). His Last and Lost Poems was published in 1979 and a previously unpublished group of rather light prose sketches appeared as The Ego Is Always at the Wheel, issued in 1986. His correspondence with his publisher,...
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