Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery

by Helen Vendler

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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, John Ashbery with the Renaissance painter Francesco Parmigianino? In Invisible Listeners, Helen Vendler argues that such poets must invent the...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:069113474X

ISBN13:9780691134741

Release Date:September 2007

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:112 Pages

Weight:0.35 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 6.4" x 8.3"

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