Delmore Schwartz
| Delmore Schwartz was a jewish mind controlled propaganda writer of the NY Intellectuals, who published in Commentary and Partisan Review and The New Republic of Walter Lippmann. He was educated at Columbia and Harvard with Alfred North Whitehead (friend of Bertrand Russell). At Syracuse University he was the teacher of Lou Reed, used in The Velvet Underground (Verve Records, Arista, RCA) with Andy Warhol. |  |
He was treated at Bellevue Hospital.
He wrote In Dreams Begin Responsabilities (gnostic theme of blur of reality/movie), a title based on poem Responsabilities of WB Yeats (HOGD).
He was promoted as an innovative writer in the circle of Ezra Pound and TS Elliot and given the Bollingen Prize by the Bollingen Foundation of Paul Mellon.
He was a friend of poet John Berryman (Philolexian Society at Columbia, also Partisan Review) and of Robert Lowell. Lowell was a member of the Boston elite, RESIST with Allen Ginsberg, William Sloane Coffin and Noam Chomsky, married to Caroline Blackwood Guiness, previously married to Lucian Freud.
He taught creative writing at Syracuse University (university of Joe Biden and Jerry Stiller) and Princeton.
He lived as an alcoholic at Chelsea Hotel (subject of Andy Warhol's movie Chelsea Girls).
Lou Reed made a song about Schwartz on The Blue Mask album. Bono dedicated Acrobat of Achtung Baby to Schwartz.
born 12/8/1913, David Carradine, d John Lennon, Kim Basinger, Nicki Minaj.
died 7/11/1966, date Yul Brynner, Lil Kim.