# Allen Grossman > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Allen_Grossman > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Allen_Grossman.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Grossman > Source revision: 1321396274 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American writer (1932–2014)}} {{Distinguish|Alan D. Grossman}} {{Infobox writer | name = Allen Grossman | honorific_prefix = | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|01|07}} | birth_place = [Minneapolis, Minnesota](/source/Minneapolis%2C_Minnesota), US | death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|06|27|1932|01|07}} | death_place = [Chelsea, Massachusetts](/source/Chelsea%2C_Massachusetts), US | resting_place = | occupation = {{flatlist| * Poet * critic * professor }} | education = | alma_mater = [Harvard](/source/Harvard) (BA, MA), [Brandeis University](/source/Brandeis_University) (Phd) | period = 1959–2009 | genre = Poetry, essay | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = [Judith Grossman](/source/Judith_Grossman) | partner = | children = 5 | relatives = | awards = [Bollingen Prize](/source/Bollingen_Prize) (2009) | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = {{URL|http://www.allengrossman.com}} | portaldisp = }} '''Allen R. Grossman''' (January 7, 1932 – June 27, 2014) was a noted [American](/source/United_States) [poet](/source/poetry), [critic](/source/critic) and [professor](/source/professor). ==Biography== Born in [Minneapolis, Minnesota](/source/Minneapolis%2C_Minnesota) in 1932,Bruce Weber (June 29, 2014). [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/arts/allen-grossman-a-poets-poet-and-scholar-dies-at-82.html?_r=0 Allen Grossman, A Poet's Poet, and Scholar, dies at 82]. The New York Times, Retrieved June 30, 2014 Grossman was educated at [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University), graduating with an [MA](/source/Master_of_Arts) in 1956 after several interruptions. He went on to receive a [PhD](/source/PhD) from [Brandeis University](/source/Brandeis_University) in 1960, where he remained a professor until 1991. In 1991, he became the [Andrew W. Mellon](/source/Andrew_W._Mellon) Professor in the Humanities at [Johns Hopkins University](/source/Johns_Hopkins_University) where until 2005 he taught in the [English](/source/English_language) Department, primarily focusing on [poetry](/source/poetry) and [poetics](/source/poetics). He continued to write after his retirement from teaching. Grossman was raised [Jewish](/source/Jewish).{{cite web|url=https://forward.com/articles/142318/lev-grossman-writes-fantasy-novels-even-a-grown-up/|title= Lev Grossman Writes Fantasy Novels Even a Grown-Up Can Love|author=Allison Gaudet Yarrow|date=September 6, 2011|work=Forward}} Grossman's first marriage ended in divorce; afterwards he married novelist [Judith Grossman](/source/Judith_Grossman), and they stayed married until his death. His children are Jonathan Grossman and Adam Grossman from the first marriage, and [Bathsheba Grossman](/source/Bathsheba_Grossman), [Austin Grossman](/source/Austin_Grossman), and [Lev Grossman](/source/Lev_Grossman) from the second. On November 11, 2006, on the occasion of his retirement, several friends, colleagues, and students of Grossman held a joint reading in his honor. These included [Michael Fried](/source/Michael_Fried), [Susan Howe](/source/Susan_Howe), [Ha Jin](/source/Ha_Jin), [Mark Halliday](/source/Mark_Halliday), [Breyten Breytenbach](/source/Breyten_Breytenbach), [Susan Stewart](/source/Susan_Stewart_(poet)) and [Frank Bidart](/source/Frank_Bidart). The event culminated with a reading by Grossman of poetry from his latest book of poems, ''Descartes' Loneliness''. Grossman died of complications from Alzheimer's at a nursing home in Chelsea, Mass. on June 27, 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/06/rest-in-peace-allen-grossman-1932-2014/ |title=Rest in Peace, Allen Grossman 1932-2014 : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog |publisher=The Poetry Foundation |date=2010-03-31 |access-date=2014-06-30}} He was 82. ==Publications== === Poetry=== *[http://poems.com/poem.php?date=14071 ''Wash Day'', Descartes' Loneliness, Allen Grossman, Poetry Daily] *[https://joshcorey.blogspot.com/2009/01/poem-by-allen-grossman.html ''City of David'', Descartes' Loneliness, Allen Grossman, Cahiers de Corey] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20091228080513/http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-grossman.html ''Dust'', Allen Grossman, AGNI Online] ===Books=== *''A Harlot's Hire'', (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Boars Head Press, 1959). *''The Recluse'', (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Pym-Randall Press, 1965). *''And The Dew Lay All Night Upon My Branch'', (Lexington, Mass.: Aleph Press, 1974). *''The Woman on the Bridge over the Chicago River'', (New York: New Directions, 1979). *''Of The Great House'', (New York: New Directions, 1982) *''The Bright Nails Scattered on the Ground'', (New York: New Directions, 1986). *[https://books.google.com/books?id=XXgp7YSAnqMC&q=Allen+Grossman&pg=PP1 ''The Ether Dome and Other Poems New and Selected''], (1979–1990) (New York: New Directions, Fall 1991). Selected by critic [Harold Bloom](/source/Harold_Bloom) for inclusion in his [Western Canon](/source/The_Western_Canon).{{Cite book |last=Bloom |first=Harold |title=The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages |date=1994 |publisher=Harcourt Brace |isbn=978-0-15-195747-7 |edition=1st |location=New York, NY |pages=566}} *''The Song of the Lord'', (Watershed, 1991). An audiotape where the author reads poems selected from ''The Ether Dome''. *''The Philosopher's Window and Other Poems'' (New York: New Directions, 1995). *''How to Do Things with Tears'', (New York: New Directions, 2001). *''Sweet Youth'', (New York: New Directions, 2002). *''Descartes' Loneliness'', (New York: New Directions, 2007) *''True-Love: Essays on Poetry and Valuing'', (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009) ===Selected Prose=== *Poetic Knowledge in the Early Yeats, a study of The Wind Among the Reeds (University of Virginia Press, 1969) *The Sighted Singer Two Works on Poetry (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) Contains (Part II): "Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Common Places in Speculative Poetics". *The Long Schoolroom: Lessons in the Bitter Logic of the Poetic Principle (University of Michigan Press, 1997). *"The Passion of Laocoon: Warfare of the Religious Against the Poetic Institution" in Western Humanities Review, Vol LVI Number 2 Fall 2002, pp. 30–80. *"Wordworth's 'The Solitary Reaper': Notes on Poiesis, Pastoral, and Institution", TriQuarterly 116, Summer 2003. ==Prizes and awards== *[Garrison Award](/source/Garrison_Award) for Poetry (195?) *Prize of the [American Academy of Poetry](/source/American_Academy_of_Poetry) (195?) *[A. B. Cohen](/source/A._B._Cohen) Award for Teaching (1965) *The [Pushcart Prize](/source/Pushcart_Prize) (1975, 1987, 1990) *[Brandeis University](/source/Brandeis_University) Distinguished Service Award (1982) *[Guggenheim Fellowship](/source/Guggenheim_Fellowship) (1982) *[National Endowment for the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts) Fellowship (1985) *[CASE](/source/Council_for_Advancement_and_Support_of_Education) Massachusetts State Professor of the Year (1987) *[Sara Teasdale](/source/Sara_Teasdale) Memorial Prize in Poetry (1987) *Sheaffer-PEN/New England Award for Literary Distinction (1988) *[MacArthur Fellowship](/source/MacArthur_Fellowship) (1989) *[National Book Critics Circle](/source/National_Book_Critics_Circle) Award nominee (1992) *[American Academy of Arts and Sciences](/source/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences) Fellow (1993) *[Bollingen Prize](/source/Bollingen_Prize) (2009)[http://pressblog.uchicago.edu/2009/02/18/allen_grossman_wins_2009_bolli.html ''Allen Grossman wins 2009 Bollingen Prize in Poetry'', University of Chicago] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610030710/http://pressblog.uchicago.edu/2009/02/18/allen_grossman_wins_2009_bolli.html |date=2010-06-10 }} ==Legacy== [Ben Lerner](/source/Ben_Lerner) discusses Grossman's impact on poetics at length in ''The Hatred of Poetry'' and references Grossman's death, ostensibly contemporaneously, on p. 78.{{cite book |last1=Lerner |first1=Ben |title=The hatred of poetry |date=2016 |isbn=9780865478206 |pages=78 |publisher=Macmillan |edition=First}} ==Criticism== *{{cite book| url=http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/10381/poetrys-poet-essays-on-the-poetry-pedagogy-and-poetics-of-allen-grossman.aspx| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130416023220/http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/10381/poetrys-poet-essays-on-the-poetry-pedagogy-and-poetics-of-allen-grossman.aspx| url-status=dead| archive-date=2013-04-16| title=Poetry's Poet: Essays on the Poetry, Pedagogy, and Poetics of Allen Grossman| year=2004| editor=Daniel Morris| publisher=National Poetry Foundation| isbn=978-0-943373-66-9}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.allengrossman.com Official website] * {{find a Grave|178715306}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20081021095307/http://english.jhu.edu/profiles/agrossman.html Allen Grossman] *[https://reginaldshepherd.blogspot.com/2007/02/on-allen-grossman.html On Allen Grossman] *[http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/17203 ''Poetry readings and lectures at The University of Chicago'', 18 Mar 2005, podcast] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Grossman, Allen}} Category:1932 births Category:2014 deaths Category:20th-century American Jews Category:Jewish American poets Category:MacArthur Fellows Category:American male poets Category:Johns Hopkins University faculty Category:Brandeis University alumni Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Brandeis University faculty Category:Writers from Minneapolis Category:Bollingen Prize recipients Category:20th-century American poets Category:20th-century American male writers Category:21st-century American Jews --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Allen Grossman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Grossman) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Grossman?action=history)). 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