Taking as its starting point Delmore Schwartz's self-appointment as both a 'poet of the Hudson River' and 'laureate of the Atlantic, ' this book comprehensively reassesses the poetic achievement of a critically neglected writer. Runchman reads Schwartz's p

"Delmore Schwartz: A Critical Reassessment comprehensively reassesses Delmore Schwartz's poetry in relation to its national and transatlantic engagements, addressing such concerns as Schwartz's Jewish-American heritage, his use of allusion, and his sense of the lyric poet's social and political responsibility"--