ABSTRACT
Schwartz (1913–66), a poet and critic, was an editor, 1943–7, and associate editor, 1947–55, of ‘Partisan Review’; and Poetry Editor and Film Critic of ‘New Republic’ from 1955 to 1957. Auden’s work strongly influenced Schwartz’s early poetry collected in ‘In Dreams Begin Responsibilites’ (1938), which was hailed by the elders of American letters – Eliot, Pound, Tate, Stevens, Ransom, and William Carlos Williams – and led to his being styled ‘the American Auden’. Other publications include ‘Genesis: Book One’ (1943), ‘Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems 1938–1958’ (1959), ‘The Selected Essays of Delmore Schwartz’ (ed. Donald A. Dike and David H. Zucker, 1970), and ‘What is to be Given’ (sel. Douglas Dunn, 1976). This is an extract from Auden and Stevens, Stevens’s work under review being ‘Transport to Summer’.
