Invisible Listeners : : Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery / / Helen Vendler.
When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy--George Herbert with God, Walt Whitman with a reader in the future,...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2005 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION: Invisible Listeners
- ONE. George Herbert and God
- TWO. Walt Whitman and the Reader-in-Futurity
- THREE. John Ashbery and the Artist of the Past
- CONCLUSION: Domesticating the Unseen
- Notes
- Index