Delmore Schwartz's Poetry and Prose

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Time Line.

1913
Born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1931
Beginning work on a long autobiography in verse, which was to become Genesis.

1938
Published book: In Dreams Begins Responsibilities (poems and stories). Well-received.

1941
Published Shenandoah, a verse play written in the mid-1930s. Introduces the author into the work, to comment on the action.

1943
Published Genesis, a prose poem, "the long poem that he regarded as his major work"; by this time "he had already been the leading poet of his generation for five years" [ The Wounded Surgeon by Adam Kirsch]. Its technique is "a narrative interrupted by commentary from a chorus of ghosts". [ The Wounded Surgeon by Adam Kirsch]. Ill-received.

1948
Published The World is a Wedding, a collection of short stories.

1950
Published Vaudeville for a Princess and Other Poems. Includes serious poems, parodies, and prose sketches.

1959
Published Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems.

1961
Published Successful Love and Other Stories.

1962
Taught Creative Writing at Syracuse University.

1966
Died.

2005
One of six poets in The Wounded Surgeon by Adam Kirsch:
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  1. Robert Lowell.
  2. Elizabeth Bishop.
  3. John Berryman.
  4. Randall Jarrell.
  5. Delmore Schwartz.
  6. Sylvia Plath.

Links and Books.

Links and Books.


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