Title: True-love : essays on poetry and valuing /
Authors: Grossman, Allen R., 1932-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Poetry.; Poetry History and criticism
Abstract: This title is the fulfillment of revered poet-critic Allen Grossman's long service to poetry in the interests of humanity. It shows how poetry's singular mission is to bind love and truth together to help make us more present to each other.
Contents: 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.