Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz

Fiction by Delmore Schwartz

Edited by Craig Morgan Teicher

With a contribution by Craig Morgan Teicher John Ashbery

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.…
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Once and For All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz

Fiction by Delmore Schwartz

Edited by Craig Morgan Teicher

With a contribution by Craig Morgan Teicher John Ashbery

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.…
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