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第13回（1959年） Winner
Delmore Schwartz
デルモア・シュワルツ
Derumoa Shuwarutsu
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1913-12-08 （Brooklyn, New York, U.S.）
- 死没
- 1966-07-11 （New York City, U.S.） 52歳
- 国籍
- United States
- 言語
- English
- 宗教
- Judaism
- 居住地歴
- Brooklyn (childhood and youth) → Cambridge, Massachusetts (around Harvard, circa 1946) → New York City (White Horse Tavern circles; Chelsea Hotel in later years) → Residences for teaching positions: Syracuse, Princeton, Kenyon, etc.
経歴
- 職業
- poet, short story writer, editor, teacher
- 活動期間
- 1932年〜1966年
- 影響を受けた人物
- Alfred North Whitehead, Modernist poets (e.g., T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound)
- 影響を与えた人物
- Saul Bellow, Lou Reed, John Berryman, Robert Lowell
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia University | — | — | — | — | United States |
| University of Wisconsin | — | — | — | — | United States |
| New York University | — | — | B.A. | 〜1935 | United States |
| Harvard University (graduate work) | — | Philosophy (studies) | — | — | United States |
Columbia University
国:
United States
Attended; no degree recorded
University of Wisconsin
国:
United States
Attended; no degree recorded
New York University
学位:
B.A.
期間:
〜1935
卒業年:
1935
国:
United States
Received B.A. in 1935
Harvard University (graduate work)
Philosophy (studies)
国:
United States
Studied with Alfred North Whitehead; left without a degree
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Bollingen Prize | Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems | — | Bollingen Prize (awarding organization) | 受賞 |
Bollingen Prize
1959
対象作品:
Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems
主催:
Bollingen Prize (awarding organization)
結果:
受賞
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
1938年 short stories and poetry collectionA collection of short stories and poems addressing family breakdown and the disillusionment of immigrant generations; includes the pieces that made Schwartz widely known.
family breakdownimmigrant experiencegenerational divideidentity
Genesis: Book One
1943年 long poem / epic poemA book-length poem about the growth of a human being; it initially received mixed-to-negative critical responses.
growthphilosophical meditationself-formation
The World Is a Wedding
1948年 short story collectionA collection of short stories satirizing bohemians and the failures of a generation.
bohemian culturefailure and satireurban life
Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems
1959年 poetry collectionA 1959 collection of poems notable for their philosophical and increasingly abstract quality; the work earned Schwartz the Bollingen Prize.
philosophical thoughtmeditationabstraction
全著作
- The Poets' Pack (Rudge, New York, 1932)
- In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (1938)
- Shenandoah and Other Verse Plays (1941)
- Genesis: Book One (1943)
- The World Is a Wedding (1948)
- Vaudeville for a Princess and Other Poems (1950)
- Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems (1959)
- Successful Love and Other Stories (1961)
- Selected Essays and posthumous collections (Selected Essays, 1970; In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories, 1978, etc.)
- Screeno: Stories & Poems (2004, posthumous)
作風・主題
- 文体
- philosophical, meditative stylemodernist elementspoetic and precise language
- 頻出モチーフ
- family and parental ruptureimmigrant experience and disillusionurban lonelinessdreams and memory
健康
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alcoholism晩年（1950年代後半〜1966年）Led to decreased creative productivity and social isolation; contributed to financial and personal decline
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mental illness (depression/instability)晩年Resulted in reduced publication and cessation of public activity
評価・遺産
Delmore Schwartz was recognized in the 1930s–50s as a gifted poet and short story writer, receiving acclaim early in his career but spending later years in isolation due to alcoholism and mental illness. His work, notable for portraits of Jewish middle-class urban life and philosophical meditation, influenced numerous writers and musicians.
資料所蔵先
- Yale Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Delmore Schwartz Papers)
大衆文化への影響
- Lou Reed's mentions and tributes (The Velvet Underground and solo work)
- U2's song "Acrobat" quoting the title of his book
- Model for a character in Saul Bellow's novel "Humboldt's Gift"
引用
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The heavy bear who goes with me, a manifold honey to smear his face, clumsy and lumbering here and there…
出典: Poem "The Heavy Bear Who Goes With Me"
豆知識
- Youngest recipient of the Bollingen Prize in 1959.
- Spent his final years at the Chelsea Hotel and died there of a heart attack in 1966.
- His body went unidentified at the morgue for a short period after death.
- His papers are held by Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.