Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz and James Laughlin: Selected Letters

Buch

Delmore Schwartz was the golden boy of the American literary scene until his untimeley death in 1966, alone and destitute. James Laughlin was the founder of New Directions, publisher and editor of the Modernists. This collection chronicles a correspondence that began with Schwartz's first unsolicited submission to Laughlin in 1937 and continued throughout the friendship that lasted until the poet's death. The relationship that developed between them was both literary, steeped in their own work and the work of their contemporaries, and personal: gifted storytellers, they delighted each other with factual and fictional observations. The two rem… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Laughlin, James / Phillips, Robert (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-393-03471-4
EAN: 9780393034714
Produktnummer: 2526879
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
Seitenangabe: 412 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.7 cm 658 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 658

Über den Autor

Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) was born and raised in Brooklyn. One of America's greatest poets and short-story writers, Schwartz contributed In Dreams Begin Responsibilities to the first issue of Partisan Review in 1937. Schwartz taught at Syracuse, Princeton, and Kenyon College, and received the Bollingen Prize in 1959. After a difficult period of alchoholism and depression, he died of a heart attack in 1966.