Delmore Schwartz

Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge

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When this book was first published (as Summer Knowledge) in 1959. Delmore Schwartz was still riding a crest, the golden boy of the literary scene-a position he had commanded ever since the appearance of his first collection of stories and poems in 1938. Summer Knowledge won for him both the prestigious Bollingen Prize in Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award. lronically, indeed tragically, the praise and prizes Schwartz's poems received did not forestall his decline, and this, his poetic testament, proved to be a final one as well. Overcome by mental illness, alienated from his friends and supporters, he disappeare… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-8112-0191-9
EAN: 9780811201919
Produktnummer: 19336083
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1967
Seitenangabe: 242 S.
Masse: H20.2 cm x B13.2 cm x D1.7 cm 263 g
Auflage: New Directions
Gewicht: 263

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.