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

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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,...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Vendler, Helen, 1933-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892
Herbert, George, > 1593-1633
Ashbery, John, > 1927-2017
Whitman, Walt, > 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation.
Herbert, George, > 1593-1633 > Criticism and interpretation.
Ashbery, John, > 1927- > Criticism and interpretation.
Ashbery, John, > 1927-2017 > Criticism and interpretation.
Reader-response criticism.
Lyric poetry.
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
God in literature.
Authors and readers.
American poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Écrivains et lecteurs > Angleterre.
Écrivains et lecteurs > États-Unis.
Dieu dans la litterature.
Esthetique de la reception.
Écrivains et lecteurs > Angleterre > Histoire.
Écrivains et lecteurs > États-Unis > Histoire.
Poesie lyrique > Histoire et critique.
Intimite dans la litterature.
Poesie americaine > Histoire et critique.
Authors and readers > England > History.
Authors and readers > United States > History.
Authors and readers > England.
Authors and readers > United States.
Lyric poetry > History and criticism.
American poetry > History and criticism.
United States.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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