title: The Elsewhere Community (Massey Lectures)
author:  Hugh Kenner 
description: Part memoir, part essay on the theme of the Grand Tour, this work by KennerDa prolific critic, professor emeritus at the University of Georgia, and the leading authority on the poet Ezra PoundDdiscusses the role of travel as part of completing one's education and as a metaphor for intellectual discovery. Kenner speaks of travel as a search for mentors, which he refers to as the Elsewhere Community. In addition to examples of the Grand Tour, he draws on his Canadian father's trip to Rome, as well as his own experiences with mentors such as Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams, each part of Kenner's own Elsewhere Community. He discusses passages from these and other writers, such as Yeats and the poet Patty Kavanagh, to illustrate their own searches for a like group. He also reflects on the meaning of the Internet and reading as part of the community. Originally delivered as five talks on Canadian radio in 1997, Kenner's treatment is accessible, if occasionally repetitive. This thoughtful, witty, and charming book is highly recommended.DT.L. Cooksey, Armstrong Atlantic State Univ., Savannah, GA <BR>Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: ## **_The Massey Lectures Series_**
  
  
  The Massey Lectures are co-sponsored by Massey College, in the University of
  Toronto, and CBC Radio. The series was created in honour of the Right
  Honourable Vincent Massey, former governor general of Canada, and was
  inaugurated in 1961 to enable distinguished authorities to communicate the
  results of original study or research on important subjects of contemporary
  interest.
  
  
  ## **R. D. L AING**
  
  
  Ronald David Laing, born in 1927, was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, where he
  attended grammar school and, in 1951, obtained his degree in medicine from
  Glasgow University. He earned a Diploma in Psychiatric Medicine from the
  University of London, and received his psychoanalytical training between 1956
  and 1960. Dr. Laing was a psychiatrist in the British Army from 1951 to 1953,
  then returned to Glasgow University to work in the Department of Psychological
  Medicine for three years. From 1956 to 1967 he worked at the Tavistock Clinic
  and the Tavistock Ins