Delmore Schwartz: a critical reassessment

"Delmore Schwartz: A Critical Reassessment comprehensively reassesses Delmore Schwartz's poetry in relation to its national and transatlantic engagements, addressing such concerns as Schwartz's Jewish-American heritage, his use of allusion, and his sense of the lyric poet's socia...

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Main Author: Runchman, Alex 1981- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan 2014
Edition:1. publ.
Series:Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
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Summary:"Delmore Schwartz: A Critical Reassessment comprehensively reassesses Delmore Schwartz's poetry in relation to its national and transatlantic engagements, addressing such concerns as Schwartz's Jewish-American heritage, his use of allusion, and his sense of the lyric poet's social and political responsibility"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- "The greatest thing in North America": "international consciousness" or "the isolation of modern poetry? -- In dreams begin responsibilities: "the egocentric predicament" -- "The land of the old world failure and the new world success": genesis and "America! America!" -- "An innocent bystander": the city, vaudeville for a princess, and Schwartz's post-war cultural criticism -- Summer knowledge: "infinite belief in infinite hope" -- Conclusion
Physical Description:XII, 189 S. 23 cm
ISBN:9781137394378