many paradoxes

"It was one of the many paradoxes of Delmore's career that the beginning of his worst depression--from which he never entirely recovered--and the subsequent decline of his work coincided with the moment when. . . his importance as an American man of letters became firmly established. By 1947, he was the most widely anthologized poet of his generation, as well as its 'ablest critic of modern poetry,' wrote John Berryman some years later."

~~ from James Atlas's Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet