Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet

National Book Award Finalist: This biography of the celebrated and castigated New York poet is "a balanced account of a notoriously unbalanced life" (Commentary).

A child of Romanian Jewish immigrants whose marriage was tumultuous and short-lived, Delmore Schwartz began publishing poetry in his early twenties—and received praise from such luminaries as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. John Berryman referred to him as "the ...