Delmore Schwartz
Delmore Schwartz ( born December 8, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York City; † July 11, 1966 ) was an American poet.
His first published work was in 1937, published short story In Dreams Begin Responsibilities. These and other short stories and poems appeared in his first book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories (1938). It was well received and Schwartz became a well-known figure in the intellectual circles of New York. He was a democratic socialist and worked with Irving Howe.
Over the next three decades, Schwartz has published numerous stories, poems and plays and was from 1943 to 1955, the Partisan Review out. In 1959, he was the youngest among the Bollingen Prize to the honorees. He received the award for a collection of poems, which appeared in that year ( Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems ). This collection also contains Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day.
His later life was marked by alcoholism and finally the madness; the history of this downward spiral that followed his initial success, is Saul Bellow 's novel Humboldt 's Gift underlying (1975 Humboldt's German heritage ).
1962 Schwartz Creative Writing began teaching at Syracuse University. One of his students was the future singer and songwriter Lou Reed, who devoted his mentor several songs (especially "European Son "). Schwartz reportedly told Reed: "You can write and you should you sell (sell out) and give it a heaven, be traced from which you can, then I'll follow you." Reed should never forget that. 1966, he attended Schwartz's funeral and years later, Reed told in his song " My House " the story of a ghost in his new house, the Delmore spell on a Ouija board. The Spirit did not frighten him, but inspired.
According to the judgment J. Kredells he was "the greatest among American writers whose work occupies a place in the hearts and minds of all who are adrift in the agony of modernity" (J. Kredell: "A Smudge on the American Cultural Panorama", 2000). The expression " In Dreams Begin Responsibilities " is popular with writers and immersed in unexpected contexts (eg in the film Deep Cover ).
Delmore spent his last years drawn from alcoholism in great seclusion at the Columbia Hotel in New York City. He was Buried in the Cedar Park Cemetery in Emerson, New Jersey.
Published writings
German
- A book that I read nor wrote poems, Göttingen: AltaQuito, 1997
- The Dream of Life, Augsburg: Maro -Verlag 2002, ISBN 3875122593
- Yeats died Saturday in France & other poems, Göttingen: AltaQuito, 2003
- A dream of Whitman & Other Poems, Göttingen: AltaQuito, 2009
English
- In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (1938 ), a collection of short stories and poems - ISBN 0811206807
- Shenandoah (1941 ), a verse drama
- Genesis (1943 ), a prose poem about the growth of a human
- World Is a Wedding (1948 ), a collection of short stories
- Vaudeville for a Princess and Other Poems (1950 )
- Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems (1959 )
- Successful Love and Other Stories ( 1961)
Posthumously published:
- Selected Essays (1970, hrg. Donald Dike, David Zucker )
- Letters of Delmore Schwartz (1984, hrg. Robert Phillips)