In Dreams Begin Responsibilities

Readers as diverse as TS Eliot and Lou Reed appreciated Delmore Schwartz's story In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.

Schwartz made his parents' disastrous marriage the subject of his most famous short story, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities". The Partisan Review published the story in its first issue (1937). Schwartz's first book is titled the same and was published in 1938 when Schwartz was only 25 years old. New York intellectual circles hailed the book, making the author a well-known figure in NYC. His work received praise from some of the most respected people in literature. T. S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams considered Schwartz to be one of the most promising young writers of his generation.