Delmore Schwartz
Who is Delmore Schwartz
Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short story writer.
Early life
Schwartz was born in 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, where he also grew up. His parents, Harry and Rose, both Romanian Jews, separated when Schwartz was nine, and their divorce had a profound effect on him. He had a younger brother, Kenneth. In 1930, Schwartz's father suddenly died at the age of 49. Though Harry had accumulated a good deal of wealth from his dealings in the real estate business, Delmore inherited only a small amount of that money as the result of the shady dealings of the executor of Harry's estate. According to Schwartz's biographer, James Atlas, "Delmore continued to hope that he would eventually receive his legacy [even] as late as 1946."Sc...
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Delmore Schwartz Poems
- Baudelaire
When I fall asleep, and even during sleep,
I hear, quite distinctly, voices speaking
Whole phrases, commonplace and trivial,
Having no relation to my affairs.
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- Dogs Are Shakespearean, Children Are Strangers
Dogs are Shakespearean, children are strangers.
Let Freud and Wordsworth discuss the child,
Angels and Platonists shall judge the dog,
The running dog, who paused, distending nostrils,
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- In The Naked Bed, In Plato's Cave
In the naked bed, in Plato's cave,
Reflected headlights slowly slid the wall,
Carpenters hammered under the shaded window,
Wind troubled the window curtains all night long,
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- Poem (in The Morning, When It Was Raining)
In the morning, when it was raining,
Then the birds were hectic and loudy;
Through all the reign is fall's entertaining;
Their singing was erratic and full of disorder:
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- Poem (old Man In The Crystal Morning After Snow)
Old man in the crystal morning after snow,
Your throat swathed in a muffler, your bent
Figure building the snow man which is meant
For the grandchild's target,
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Comments about Delmore Schwartz
- Aliner: "delmore was already the poet on the cross of culture, every muscle contorted; brooklyn's best, nailed down."
- alfred kazin on delmore schwartz, 1978
- Aliner: let us be aware of the true dark gods
acknowledgeing the cache of the crotch
the primitive pure and pwerful pink and grey
private sensitivites
wincing, marvelous in their sweetness, whence rises
the future.
therefore let us praise miss marilyn monroe.
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- Beineckelibrary: heavy notation: delmore schwartz's copy of finnegans wake by james joyce via
- Wildwritinglife: my favorite title of the day: in dreams begin responsibilities (by delmore schwartz)
- Aliner: james gorney on being a student in delmore schwartz's lectures on james' ulysses.
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