Lou Reed, Saul Bellow and... Delmore Schwartz

What's in common between Saul Bellow, Nobel Prize for Literature 1976, and Lou Reed, a cult figure in the American rock scene? Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966). We explain. Greeted from the beginning by W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot and Nabokov, Schwartz served as a role model for the poet Humboldt whose dromatic and terrible misadventures Bellow described in his most prominent novel – The Don of Humboldt (1975, Pulitzer Prize). Bellow had been Schwartz'…