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Spring 1962 • Vol. XXIV No. 2 • Poetry |

The Journey of a Poem Compared to All the Sad Variety of Travel

By Delmore Schwartz

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In 1959, Delmore Schwartz became the youngest recipient of the Bollingen Prize, awarded for a collection of poetry published that year, Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems. Three years later, he was teaching at Syracuse University when KR published a selection of new poems.

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