Delmore Schwartz's Poetry and Prose

Highlights of Poetry. Index of poetry. How to Write Poetry. Books read. How to write specific forms: Haibun. Haiku. Hay(na)ku. Rengay. Tanka. Tanka surveys. Concrete. Ghazal. Lai. Pantoum. Prose poem. Rondeau. Rubáiyát. Sestina. Skaldic verse. Sonnet. Terza rima. Triolet. Tritina. Villanelle. Poet peers: Delmore Schwartz. Elizabeth Bishop. John Berryman. Randall Jarrell. Robert Lowell. Sylvia Plath. J. Zimmerman. J. Zimmerman (haiku). J. Zimmerman (tanka).

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:

Robert Lowell. Elizabeth Bishop. John Berryman. Randall Jarrell. Delmore Schwartz. Sylvia Plath.

Links and Books.

Links and Books.

• Best American Poetry series.
• Best Poems by the Best Poets - Some Lists of Winners.
• Laureate: the Poets Laureate of Britain
• Laureate: the Poets Laureate of the U.S.A.
• Other Books of Poetry Form.

Related pages: Books of Poetry Form. Alphabetic list of poetry forms and related topics. How to Write Poetry.

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