Delmore Schwartz Summary

Poet and critic Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) stunned the literary world with the breathtaking achievement of his first published volume in 1938, earning him adulation as "the American Auden." His earl... Read more

Delmore Schwartz, hailed as "the American Auden" even before the publication of his first collection of poetry in 1938, is now more often remembered as the inspiration for poems by John Berryman and R... Read more

Critical Essay by Philip Rahv [Delmore Schwartz] was an exceptionally able literary critic. Far too sophisticated intellectually and too much at home with conceptual matters to turn himself into an e... Read more

Critical Essay by Bonnie Lyons Schwartz's fictional aims are suggested in his criticism of other fiction writers. This fictional "credo" is clearest in "John Dos Passos an... Read more

Critical Essay by Irving Howe The slyly clever stories that Schwartz wrote, as well as his rueful, contemplative poems, can leave some readers cold. These stories and poems are associated with the sp... Read more

Saposnik is an American educator and critic who specializes in Jewish-American literature. In the following essay, he discusses Schwartz's treatment of Jewish-American identity in his fiction a... Read more

Shechner is an American educator and critic who specializes in Jewish-American literature. In the following essay, he reviews Portrait of Delmore: Journals and Notes of Delmore Schwartz: 1939–1... Read more