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,...

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Main Author:	Vendler, Helen, 1933-2024
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005.
Subjects:	Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation. Herbert, George, > 1593-1633 > Criticism and interpretation. Ashbery, John, > 1927-2017 > Criticism and interpretation. Ashbery, John, > 1927- > Criticism and interpretation. American poetry > History and criticism. Intimacy (Psychology) in literature. Lyric poetry > History and criticism. Authors and readers > United States. Authors and readers > England. Reader-response criticism. God in literature. Authors and readers > United States > History. Authors and readers > England > History.
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