The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic PrincipleUniversity of Michigan Press, 1997 - 213 pagina's Allen Grossman's combined reputation as a poet and as a professor of poetry gives him an unusual importance in the landscape of contemporary American poetry. In this new collection Grossman revisits the "Long Schoolroom" of poetic principle--where he eventually learned to reconsider the notion that poetry was cultural work of the kind that contributed unambiguously to the peace of the world. The jist of what he learned--of what his "lessons" taught him--was (in the sentence of Oliver Wendell Holmes): "Where most men have died, there is the greatest interest." According to Grossman, violence arises not merely from the "barbarian" outside of the culture the poet serves, but from the inner logic of that culture; not, as he would now say, from the defeat of cultural membership but from the terms of cultural membership itself. Grossman analyzes the "bitter logic of the poetic principle" as it is articulated in exemplary texts and figures, including Bede's Caedmon and Milton. But the heart of The Long Schoolroom is American, ranging from essays on Whitman and Lincoln to an in-depth review of the work of Hart Crane. His final essays probe the example of postmodern Jewish and Christian poetry in this country, most notably the work of Robert Lowell and Allen Ginsburg, as it searches for an understanding of "holiness" in the production and control of violence. Allen Grossman is author of The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New and Selected, The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers and Writers (with Mark Halliday), and most recently, The Philosopher's Window. He is Mellon Professor in the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. |
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... question of the justice of God ( the " theodician " question ) . Speaking in the poem is driven by consciousness of the inadequacy to experience of the re- ceived ( institutional ) account of the world . In short , the speaker in the ...
... question of the justice of God ( the " theodician " question ) . Speaking in the poem is driven by consciousness of the inadequacy to experience of the re- ceived ( institutional ) account of the world . In short , the speaker in the ...
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... question of another poetic can be put in the form : " Why is there no Jewish poetry ? " ( see chap . 7 ) . In my time in America , the answer to the question begins with the instance of Allen Ginsberg . The Jew , like the Irishman ...
... question of another poetic can be put in the form : " Why is there no Jewish poetry ? " ( see chap . 7 ) . In my time in America , the answer to the question begins with the instance of Allen Ginsberg . The Jew , like the Irishman ...
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... Question of Another Logic We began with a poem by James Wright before us , and with the essays in The Long Schoolroom in mind . I had just read , at Daniel's suggestion , the published letters exchanged between Leslie Marmon Silko and ...
... Question of Another Logic We began with a poem by James Wright before us , and with the essays in The Long Schoolroom in mind . I had just read , at Daniel's suggestion , the published letters exchanged between Leslie Marmon Silko and ...
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Thinking about Poetic Vocation | 1 |
Subjection and Mastery in | 18 |
Miltons Sonnet On the Late Massacre | 39 |
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