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Delmore Schwartz had, writes Alfred Kazin, "a feeling for literary honor, for the highest standards, that one can only call noble—he loved the nobility of example presented by the greatest writers of our century, and he wanted in this sense to be noble himself, a light unto the less talented.... So he suffered, unceasingly, because he had often to disappoint himself—because the world turned steadily more irrational and incomprehensible—because the effort of his intellectual will, of his superb intellectual culture, was not always enough to sustain him.... He was the prisoner of his superb intellectual training, a victim of the logic he respected beyond anything else. He was of the generation that does not come easily to concepts of the absurd."
Mental illness haunted Schwartz for approximately twenty years. Marlene Nadle reported that it sent him "in and out of sanatoriums and into and out of the... -
Poems By Delmore Schwartz
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- The Heart Flies up, Erratic as a Kite
- Why Do You Write an Endless History?
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- Twelfth Night, Next Year, a Week-End in Eternity
- True Recognition Is Often Refused
- The Kingdom of Poetry
- The Mounting Summer, Brilliant and Ominous
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- The Fifth Decade of Cantos, by Ezra Pound
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- Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers
- The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me
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- The Ballad of the Children of the Czar
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- The Foggy, Foggy Blue
- Father and Son
- Lincoln
- At a Solemn Musick
- Darkling Summer, Ominous Dusk, Rumorous Rain
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