by Walter Kraut | Apr 19, 2021 | Book of the week, Featured book
When Delmore Schwartz (December 8, 1913 – July 11, 1966) started out in the late 1930s, he was seen by many as the future of serious literature and praised by luminaries such as T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound. He never really fulfilled this...
by Walter Kraut | Oct 27, 2020 | Book of the week
People have the tendency to demarcate historical periods with single events. The 1960s especially, that mythical period of universal love and kindness, is seen as a specific and limited time that ended suddenly before the decade was quite over. The poet Philip Larkin...