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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