Delmore Schwartz [electronic resource] : A Critical Reassessment /
Runchman, A.author.
Taking as its starting point Delmore Schwartz's self-appointment as both a 'poet of the Hudson River' and 'laureate of the Atlantic,' this book comprehensively reassesses the poetic achievement of a critically neglected writer. Runchman reads Schwartz's poetry in relation to its national and international perspectives.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Permissions; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 "The Greatest Thing in North America": "International Consciousness" or "The Isolation of Modern Poetry?"; Chapter 2 In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: "The Egocentric Predicament"; Chapter 3 "The Land of the Old World Failure and the New World Success": Genesis and "America! America!"; Chapter 4 "An Innocent Bystander": The City, Vaudeville for a Princess, and Schwartz's Postwar Cultural Criticism; Chapter 5 Summer Knowledge: "Infinite Belief in Infinite Hope"; Conclusion; Notes
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Taking as its starting point Delmore Schwartz's self-appointment as both a 'poet of the Hudson River' and 'laureate of the Atlantic,' this book comprehensively reassesses the poetic achievement of a critically neglected writer. Runchman reads Schwartz's poetry in relation to its national and international perspectives.
Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966
Poetry.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
America—Literatures.
United States—History.
Poetry and Poetics.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.
US History.