Invisible listeners : lyric intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery /
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,...
| Основен автор: | Vendler, Helen, 1933- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
℗♭2005.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=273149 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Invisible listeners. |
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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 language that will enact, on the page, an intimacy they lack in life. Through brilliantly insightful and gracefully written readings of these three great poe. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource ([xi], 95 pages) |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-89) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781400826711 1400826713 069113474X 9780691134741 |