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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vendler, Helen, 1933-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.