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Delmore Schwartz Poet

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Dec 8, 1913
  • Died: Jul 11, 1966

Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 - July 11, 1966) was an American poet and short story writer.

Schwartz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1913, where he grew up. His parents, Harry and Rose, both Romanian Jews, separated when Schwartz was nine, and their divorce had a profound effect on him. In 1930, Schwartz's father suddenly died at the age of 49. Though Harry had accumulated a good deal of wealth from his dealings in the real estate business, Delmore only inherited a small amount of that money as the result the shady dealings of the executor of Harry's estate. According to Schwartz's biographer, James Atlas, "Delmore continued to hope that he would eventually receive his legacy [even] as late as 1946."

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn. time

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