Delmore Schwartz and James Laughlin: Selected Letters

by Delmore Schwartz and James Laughlin

Book Overview

Delmore Schwartz was the golden boy of the American literary scene until his untimeley death in 1966, alone and destitute. James Laughlin was the founder of New Directions, publisher and editor of the Modernists. This collection chronicles a correspondence that began with Schwartz's first unsolicited submission to Laughlin in 1937 and continued throughout the friendship that lasted until the poet's death. The relationship that developed between them...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393034712
• ISBN13: 9780393034714
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"