# The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz - Hardcover

by **Delmore Schwartz** (Author), **Ben Mazer** (Editor)

**The first complete collection of the poetry of Delmore Schwartz, "the most underrated poet of the twentieth century" (John Berryman).**

When Delmore Schwartz published his first short story, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities," in _Partisan Review_ in 1937, he became an instant literary celebrity. After the appearance of his first book (by the same name), he was inundated with praise. The famed poet Allen Tate wrote to him, "Your poetic style is beyond any doubt the first real innovation that we've had since Eliot and Pound," and T. S. Eliot himself wrote Schwartz a letter asking him to compose more poetry. The brilliant start of his career is matched perhaps only by its tragic end, a lonely death after an extended period of alcoholism, depression, and derangement. Today, more than fifty years after his death in 1966, Schwartz is often remembered for the tragedy of his life rather than for the innovation and sad brilliance of his greatest work.

This book brings together all of Schwartz's poetry for the very first time, from his groundbreaking debut collection to his unpublished late work, which he kept writing until his death. Accompanied by Ben Mazer's illustrative notes and introduction, _The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz_ offers readers the long-awaited opportunity to rediscover one of the most influential and original poets of the twentieth century. As Mazer writes in his introduction, "It is the poems that count now. And it is the glory of the poems that survives here, awaiting new life."

### Author Biography

**Delmore Schwartz** (1913-1966) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. A brilliant poet, short-story writer, and literary talent, he contributed "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" to the first issue of _Partisan Review._ His books include _Shenandoah and Other Verse Plays_; the works of poetry _Genesis_: _Book One_ and _Summer Knowledge_; and the short-fiction collections _The World Is a Wedding_ and _Successful Love and Other Stories_. Schwartz taught at Syracuse, Princeton, and Kenyon College, and received the Bollingen Prize in 1959.

**Ben Mazer** was born in New York City and was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was educated at Harvard University, where he studied with Seamus Heaney, and he took his MA and PhD in critical editing and textual scholarship under Christopher Ricks and Archie Burnett at the Editorial Institute at Boston University. Mazer is the author of nearly a dozen collections of poetry, and he is the editor of _The Collected Poems of John Crowe Ransom_ and _Selected Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman_, among other works_._ He lives in Cambridge.

**Number of Pages:** 720

**Dimensions:** 1.8 x 8.8 x 5.9 IN

**Publication Date:** April 02, 2024

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