
Great Symbols Enacted the Age!
A new collected volume tries to finally make Delmore Schwartz’s oeuvre whole. To read it is to enter his world of symbols and subways, grand ideas and sacred genealogies.
A new collected volume tries to finally make Delmore Schwartz’s oeuvre whole. To read it is to enter his world of symbols and subways, grand ideas and sacred genealogies.
The social roots of the New York writers are not hard to trace. With a few delightful exceptions—a tendril from Yale, a vine from Seattle—they stem from the world of the immigrant Jews, either workers or petty bourgeois.1 They come …