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Delmore Schwartz Poems
- Calmly We Walk Through This Ap... Calmly we walk ...
- The Heavy Bear Who Goes With M... The heavy bear who goes with ...
- Baudelaire When I fall asleep, and even during sleep, I ...
- All Night, All Night "I have been one acquainted with the ...
- A Dream Of Whitman Paraphrased...
- In The Naked Bed, In Plato's C... In the naked bed, in ...
- America, America! I am a poet of the Hudson River and the ...
Delmore Schwartz was born December 8, 1913, in Brooklyn to Romanian immigrant parents. Their marriage however failed and this affected him all his life.
Biography
Inspite of his unhappy and unsettled childhood though he was was a gifted and intellectual young student. He enrolled early at Columbia University, and also studied at the University of Wisconsin, eventually receiving his bachelor's degree in 1935 in philosophy from New York University.
In 1936 he won the Bowdoin Prize in the Humanities for his essay Poetry as Imitation. In 1937 his short story In Dreams Begin Responsibilities was published in Partisan Review a left wing magazine.The following ... more »
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Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day
Calmly we walk through this April's day,
Metropolitan poetry here and there,
In the park sit pauper and rentier,
The screaming children, the motor-car
Fugitive about us, running away,
Between the worker and the millionaire
Number provides all distances,
It is Nineteen Thirty-Seven now,
Many great dears are taken away,
What will become of you and me
(This is the school in which we learn...)
Besides the photo and the memory?
(...that time is the fire in which we burn.)
(This is the school in which we learn...)
What is the self amid this ...
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