Once and for all : the best of Delmore Schwartz / introduction by John Ashbery ; edited by Craig Morgan Teicher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966, author.

Contributor:

Teicher, Craig Morgan, 1979- editor.

Ashbery, John, 1927-2017, writer of introduction.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966--Literary collections.

Schwartz, Delmore.

Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966.

Genre:

Literary collections.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 293 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Best of Delmore Schwartz

Place of Publication:

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2016.

Summary:

"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as well as excerpts from his long unavailable epic poem Genesis, a never-completed book-length work on T.S. Eliot, and unpublished poems from his archives"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"A New Directions Book."

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780811224321

0811224325

OCLC:

911364403