16 Facts About Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz was an American poet and short story writer.

Delmore Schwartz then did some graduate work in philosophy at Harvard University, where he studied with the philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, left and returned to New York without receiving a degree.

Delmore Schwartz had expressed feeling rejected by the English department at Harvard on account of his Jewish identity.

Delmore Schwartz's work received praise from some of the most respected people in literature, including T S Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and Ezra Pound, and Schwartz was considered one of the most gifted and promising young writers of his generation.

Delmore Schwartz was deeply upset when his epic poem, Genesis, which he published in 1943 and hoped would stand alongside other Modernist epics like The Waste Land and The Cantos as a masterpiece, received a negative critical response.

Delmore Schwartz's poetry differed from his stories in that it was less autobiographical and more philosophical.

Delmore Schwartz's verse became increasingly abstract in his later years.

Delmore Schwartz taught creative writing at six universities, including Syracuse, Princeton, and Kenyon College.

Delmore Schwartz was unable to repeat or build on his early successes later in life as a result of alcoholism and mental illness, and his last years were spent in seclusion at the Chelsea Hotel in New York.

Delmore Schwartz was so isolated from the rest of the world that when he died in his hotel room on July 11,1966, at age 52, of a heart attack, two days passed before his body was identified at the morgue.

Delmore Schwartz was interred at Cedar Park Cemetery, in Emerson, New Jersey.

In 1968, Schwartz's friend and peer, fellow poet John Berryman, dedicated his book His Toy, His Dream, His Rest "to the sacred memory of Delmore Schwartz", including 12 elegiac poems about Schwartz in the book.

Delmore Schwartz becomes increasingly paranoid and jealous of the success of the main character, Charlie Citrine, becoming isolated and descending into alcoholism and madness.

Charles Bukowski wrote a biographical poem about Delmore Schwartz, published in his posthumous Open All Night.

Delmore Schwartz's criticism was brilliant in its rancor and decisiveness; he was really more of a bitch than a bard- his poetry too fawning and delicate.

The poem makes mention of Delmore Schwartz's writing, daily habits, and death.