Delmore Schwartz, a gifted poet, struggled with a painful life and failure, dying alone and unrecognized in a seedy hotel.
Schwartz and peers like Berryman and Lowell faced challenges writing poetry in an inhospitable era post-modernism, struggling with personal demons and societal pressures.
The gifted yet haunted poets, including Delmore Schwartz, lived a life of self-medication, despondency, and struggles to find poetic success.
Saul Bellow's reflection on Schwartz's death in 'Humboldt's Gift' highlights the tragic end of a poet unclaimed and unacknowledged in death.
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