Last and Lost Poems (New Directions Paperbook) [Paperback]

Delmore Schwartz (Author)

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Albert Einstein To Archibald Macleish
All Night, All Night
America, America!
Apollo Musagete, Poetry, And The Leader Of The Muses
Archaic Bust Of Apollo
At This Moment Of Time
The Choir And Music Of Solitude And Silence
Christmas Poem For Nancy
The Dances And The Dancers
Dream Of Whitman Paraphrased, Recongnized & Made More Vivid
The Famous Resort In Late Autumn
The First Night Of Fall And Falling Rain
Genesis
The Graveyard By The Sea, Sels.
Greatest Thing In North America
He Who Excuses Himself Also Accuses Himself
How Can He Possess
Journey Of A Poem Compared To All The Sad Variety Of Travel
A King Of Kings, A King Among The Kings, Sels.
Late Autumn In Venice
Love And Masrilyn Monroe
The Maxims Of Sisyphus
Metro-goldwyn-mayer
News Of The Gold World Of May
Now He Knows All There Is To Know
Overture
Philology Recapitulated Ontology, Poetry Is Ontology
Phoenix Lyrics
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem
Poem For Jacques Maritain And Leon Trotzky
Poem To Johann Sebastian Bach
Poem: How Marvelous Man's Kind Is
The Poet
The Power And Glory Of Languages
Praise Is Traditional And Appropriate
Prologue: Night One
Rabbi To Preach
Salute Valentine
The Sequel, The Conclusion, The Endlessness
Sonnet
Sonnet On Famous And Familiar Sonnets And Experiences
Sonnet Suggested By Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare ... Et Al
Spiders
The Spring
This Is A Poem I Wrote At Night, Before The Dawn
To A Fugitive
To Helen
Two Lyrics From Kilroy's Carnival: A Masque
What Curious Dresses All Men Wear
When I Remember The Advent
Words For A Trumpet Chorale Celebrating The Autumn
Yeats Died Saturday In France
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 134 pages
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation; Revised edition (July 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811210960
• ISBN-13: 978-0811210966
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Thanks to Robert Phillips for making these poems available, September 12, 2003

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This review is from: Last and Lost Poems (New Directions Paperbook) (Paperback)

The remarkable thing is that Schwartz kept writing great poetry, despite alcohol and a solitary life. The poems may not have the same subject or form as those in "Summer Knowledge", being more free and more sentimental (more like Whitman), but he was still producing good poems. For example in the 1965 poem Spring: "The earth, just like a schoolgirl, memorizes Poems, so many poems..." Schwartz was still interested in the Kingdom of poetry, for example: " Unless ye be as a little child ye cannot enter the kingdom of poetry". The Studies of Narcissus provide an innovative twist on the familiar story, that looking into a stream provided a changing image on oneself. Knowing about the years of drug and alcohol abuse, these lines from the 1958 poem seemed particularly poignant:
"afraid of every little death,
... or sickened by the terror of new hope,
or certain, again, that every death of any hope
Concludes all hope and makes the body's death
More desirable than the recurrent torment of the years."