{"product_id":"delmore-schwartz-the-life-of-an-american-poet-paperback","title":"Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Atlas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDelmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet\u003c\/i\u003e is based on interviews, letters, and an extraordinary collection of unpublished papers that had never before been examined. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDelmore Schwartz was only twenty-four in 1938 when his first book, \u003ci\u003e In Dreams Begin Responsibilities\u003c\/i\u003e, was published. He received praise from T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. For Tate, it was \"the only genuine innovation we've had since Eliot and Pound.\" A decade later, the short-story collection \u003ci\u003eThe World Is a Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e was published; many critics characterized it as the definitive portrait of their generation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this biography, the first about the man whom John Berryman called \"the most underrated poet of the twentieth century,\" James Atlas traces Schwartz's history, from the arrival of his Romanian ancestors in New York, to his youth in Washington Heights, to his career at Harvard as a graduate student in philosophy, and onward to the flowering of his generation in the '40s, when he and the critics, poets, and novelists who were his friends made their reputations. Schwartz's brilliant satires of his friends and acquaintances, his autobiographical stories, and his letters to his illustrious peers contribute to this vivid portrait of an era--and of that era's most trenchant chronicler.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJAMES ATLAS\u003c\/b\u003e (1949 - 2019) is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eBellow: A Biography; Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet \u003c\/i\u003eand the memoir \u003ci\u003eMy Life in the Middle Ages: A Survivor's Tale. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 452\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.01 x 8.25 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 18, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51790840201504,"sku":"9780374539146","price":33.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a21d491289d6844f92a3a011dce38dcf.webp?v=1780686119","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/delmore-schwartz-the-life-of-an-american-poet-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}