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Delmore Schwartz: The American Auden

Delmore Schwartz, the demonic, Machiavellian poet vigorously depicted as Von Humboldt Fleischer in Saul Bellow's novel Humboldt*s Gift, became a legend in his own young manhood: precociously gifted and charismatic, the sky-rocket trace of his life and work has been celebrated, mourned and mythologised by all his contemporaries those who have become known as the Middle Generation of American writers. The child of immigrants from eastern Europe, his early years were marked by a sequence of hapless events and the rapid development of happy talents. The elder of two sons, he owed his very conception to the fact that his mother inherited a French war bond which paid for her to have an operation to facilitate pregnancy, much against her husband's wishes. Being styled "Delmore" he took as a further inauspicious blessing, which became the theme of a number of his later works, such as the short play Shenandoah (about "The Naming of the Child") wherein Uncle Nathan deplores the collocation "Shenandoah Fish": "The association of ideas is appalling. The boy will be handicapped as if he had a club foot." His equally ill-matched parents, Harry and Rose, rifted Delmore's child hood with quarrels and emotional blackmail. Having deposited the family in Brooklyn (which was always Schwartz's spiritual home), Harry, a vain, generous man much given to womanising, travelled more and more often away from home and made himself an extremely successful businessman. Though fond of his son, he called the boy "peculiar," a remark (significantly passed on by his mother) to which Delmore at least once attributed his own speech impediment. In a passage from John Berryman's Journal which James Atlas does not quote, Delmore re marked on one occasion, "I admired my father very much ... at the age of six teen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations." Harry and Rose separated, and Delmore's mother, who was garrulous and exploitative an inveterate and self righteous tale-teller used their son to bargain for her husband's return home (Harry shockingly offered to buy the boy on one occasion), and accepted a divorce only in 1927. The father died when Delmore was sixteen, and left assets which would have entitled him to be called a millionaire, but they were dissipated by