Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge [Paperback]

When this book was first published (asPoems in a great diversity of manners and meters, all marked by inventive workmanship. all spoken in a personal voice.The lyricism and questioning quality of Delmore Schwartzs poetry has long since made him one of the more significant of America's younger poets .... Shades of Yeats. the Freudian spectre, Christianity, Marx, the urgent voices of classic sensuality, the uneasy eagerness of the international all filter through here in the lens of Delmore Schwartz's uniquely evocative diction.An authentically poetic distillation of the passionately experienced intellectual history of two decades.Each poem struggles manfully' and knowingly for its own aesthetic and ethical stability, and the whole book reads like a passionate confession of intellectual and ethical vicissitude.Every point of view, every kind of knowledge and every kind of experience is limited and ignorant: nevertheless so far as l know, this volume seems to me to be as representative as it could be.-Delmore Schwartz