The collected poems of Delmore Schwartz / edited by Ben Mazer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966, author.

Contributor:

Mazer, Ben, editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xvi, 699 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2024.

Summary:

"The first complete collection of the poetry of Delmore Schwartz, "the most underrated poet of the twentieth century" (John Berryman)"--$cProvided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1: In dreams begin responsibilities (1938)

Coriolanus and his Mother: The dream of one performance (a narrative poem)

Poems of experiment and imitation

Part 2: A season in hell (1939)

Part 3: Genesis: Book one (1943)

Part 4: Genesis: Book two

Part 5: Vaudeville for a princess and other poems (1950)

Vaudeville for a princess

The true, the good, and the beautiful

The early morning light

Part 6: Summer knowledge: New and selected poems 1938-1958 (1959)

The dream of knowledge

Summer knowledge

Part 7: Uncollected poems

Poems published in magazines and anthologies, 1932-1962

Posthumously published poems

Previously unpublished poems.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 673-683) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Contains:

Cotainer of: Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891. Saison en enfer. English. (Schwartz)

ISBN:

9780374604301

0374604304

OCLC:

1428783145