No one else can take a bath for you
Mark Ford, 31 March 1988
The ego is always at the wheel
by Delmore Schwartz.
Carcanet, 146 pp., £6.95, May 1987,0 85635 702 2 Show More
by Delmore Schwartz.
Carcanet, 146 pp., £6.95, May 1987,
A Nest of Ninnies
by John Ashbery and James Schuyler.
Carcanet, 191 pp., £10.95, June 1987,0 85635 699 9 Show More
by John Ashbery and James Schuyler.
Carcanet, 191 pp., £10.95, June 1987,
“... that case where the hell was I? but what instead did I want it to sound like? Schwartz made his mark just before the Second World War when Modernism was at its most popular, and it was in this tradition that Allen Tate saw his first book, In dreams begin responsibilities, when it came out in 1938, hailing it as ‘beyond any doubt the first real innovation ... ”