True-love
Subtitle: essays on poetry and valuing
By: Allen Grossman.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9780226309736; 9780226309743
Subjects: Poetry; Poetry -- History and criticism
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Poetry and enlightenment: Kant on orientation; title: Whitman on the Brooklyn Ferry, and Celan on the meridian; title: Hard problems in poetry, especially valuing; title: Why is death in Arcadia? poetic process, literary humanism, and the example of pastoral; title: The passion of the laocoon: warfare of the religious against the poetic institution; title: Figuring the real: Wordsworth's "The solitary reaper"; title: On communicative difficulty in general and "difficult" poetry in particular: the example of Hart Crane's "the broken tower"; title: Coda: teaching literature in a discredited civilization: a talk for teachers.