A Season in Hell. (Inscribed by Delmore Schwartz to his teacher)

“It was obvious to some of his teachers that Delmore was a brilliant boy…”

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A wonderful association copy of this translation of Rimbaud’s Une Saison en Enfer, one of 750 copies. Inscribed and signed by Delmore Schwartz to his high school poetry teacher: “To Mary J.J. Wrinn, Delmore Schwartz. January 1940.”

Schwartz biographer James Atlas writes: “It was obvious to some of his teachers that Delmore was a brilliant boy, and in particular to Mary J. J. Wrinn, ‘an Irish, red-faced woman with a terrible temper,’ as a classmate of Delmore’s remembered her, who conducted the school’s poetry club and would often argue with Delmore over his poems, which he was reluctant to revise. But she encouraged him in his writing, and was aware of his advanced knowledge of contemporary poetry” (Poetics and Ruminations: Delmore Schwartz, accessed online).

Price: $650.00