I eat it up
Joanne O’Leary: Delmore Schwartz’s Decline, 21 November 2024
The Collected Poems
by Delmore Schwartz, edited by Ben Mazer.
Farrar, Straus, 699 pp., £40, April,978 0 374 60430 1 Show More
by Delmore Schwartz, edited by Ben Mazer.
Farrar, Straus, 699 pp., £40, April,
“... should his ‘verse prove attractive to posterity’. Posterity has not proved kind, something Ben Mazer’s edition of Schwartz’s Collected Poems sets out to redress. But this sprawling volume is no corrective to the conclusion that Schwartz was a busted flush. John Ashbery (a great admirer of the early poems) was right: ‘The bulk of his work is ... ”
