ABSTRACT
THE younger writers who, with the editors of Partisan Review, formed the core of the new group, included Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Meyer Schapiro, Lionel Abel, Delmore Schwartz, Sidney Hook. We were friends, but I think we were held together less by friendship than by a sense of common values and purpose. I was closer at the beginning to Clement Greenberg, and later to Delmore Schwartz, but the demands of Delmore’s psyche were such that I could describe the relationship only as difficult and intermittent.
