True-love : essays on poetry and valuing /
Grossman, Allen R.,1932-
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-189) and index.
Poetry and enlightenment (Kant on orientation, Whitman on the Brooklyn Ferry, and Celan on the meridian) -- Hard problems in poetry, especially valuing -- Why is death in Arcadia? Poetic process, literary humanism, and the example of pastoral -- The passion of the laocoön: warfare of the religious against the poetic institution -- Figuring the real: Wordsworth's "The solitary reaper" -- On communicative difficulty in general and "difficult" poetry in particular: the example of Hart Crane's "The broken tower" -- Coda: Teaching literature in a discredited civilization: a talk for teachers.
Poetry.
Poetry