elijahcraig
15th June 2004, 05:16
http://www.scaruffi.com/vol2/velvet.html
I find this site to be one of the best in the analysis of the "high art of pop art" (in a phrase that could be applied I suppose).
Lou Reed was the child prodigy of a Jewish family from Brooklyn. At fourteen he had already played in a band of high school kids,The Shades, that managed to record a 45, So Blue (1957). At the university he studied English literature with the poet Delmore Schwartz, but he spent most of his time playing music. At twenty he dropped out of college to join the songwriters of Pickwick International, who produced records for sale at supermarkets. During that period he wrote The Ostrich for his own band, the Primitives.
Has anyone else here read Delmore Schwartz? He is a very good poet, Lou Reed takes many things from his style.
TS Eliot was notably a fan of Schwartz, as he thought of American culture as usually horrible, while thinking Schwartz a great poet, and a good writer, as his book of stories "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" shows.
I find this site to be one of the best in the analysis of the "high art of pop art" (in a phrase that could be applied I suppose).
Lou Reed was the child prodigy of a Jewish family from Brooklyn. At fourteen he had already played in a band of high school kids,The Shades, that managed to record a 45, So Blue (1957). At the university he studied English literature with the poet Delmore Schwartz, but he spent most of his time playing music. At twenty he dropped out of college to join the songwriters of Pickwick International, who produced records for sale at supermarkets. During that period he wrote The Ostrich for his own band, the Primitives.
Has anyone else here read Delmore Schwartz? He is a very good poet, Lou Reed takes many things from his style.
TS Eliot was notably a fan of Schwartz, as he thought of American culture as usually horrible, while thinking Schwartz a great poet, and a good writer, as his book of stories "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" shows.