Delmore Schwartz
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The Trouble With Delmore August 26, 2024
Delmore Schwartz is a haunting reminder of the travails—or roller-coaster rides—of reputation. He burst onto the literary scene in 1938, some years before his peers, with the poems, verse play, and short story of In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (193...
The Poet Who Took It Personally April 16, 2024
Delmore Schwartz died in the early morning of July 11, 1966, in an ambulance on the way to Roosevelt Hospital. He’d been living alone in a seedy hotel near Times Square, reading compulsively and scribbling in the many notebooks that he kept during hi...
