Delmore Schwartz

1. Introduction
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2. “The Greatest Thing in North America”: “International Consciousness” or “The Isolation of Modern Poetry?”
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3. In Dreams Begin Responsibilities: “The Egocentric Predicament”
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4. “The Land of the Old World Failure and the New World Success”: Genesis and “America! America!”
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5. “An Innocent Bystander”: The City, Vaudeville for a Princess, and Schwartz’s Postwar Cultural Criticism
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6. Summer Knowledge: “Infinite Belief in Infinite Hope”
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7. Conclusion
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Keywords: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature, North American Literature, US History