The Ego Is Always at the Wheel : Bagatelles

Schwartz, Delmore, Robert Phillips (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0811209830 / ISBN 13: 9780811209830

Published by New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1986

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Pages are clean and binding is tight.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ego Is Always at the Wheel : Bagatelles
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0811209830
• ISBN 13: 9780811209830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Mildly Edgeworn
• Dust Jacket Condition: Mildly edgeworn dust jacket
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Synopsis

Drawn from the poet's collected papers at Yale University, these humorous essays touch on topics including taking baths and the meaning of existentialism, the abominations of the telephone, theories of Hamlet's behavior and Don Giovanni's promiscuity, and divorce

About the Author

Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) was born and raised in Brooklyn. One of America’s greatest poets and short-story writers, Schwartz contributed “In Dreams Begin Responsibilities” to the first issue of Partisan Review in 1937. Schwartz taught at Syracuse, Princeton, and Kenyon College, and received the Bollingen Prize in 1959. After a difficult period of alchoholism and depression, he died of a heart attack in 1966.