| Description |
1 online resource ([xi], 95 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-89) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Herbert, George, 1593-1633 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Ashbery, John, 1927- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Herbert, George, 1593-1633 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 |
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Herbert, George, 1593-1633 |
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 |
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American poetry -- History and criticism
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Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
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Lyric poetry -- History and criticism
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Authors and readers -- United States
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Authors and readers -- England
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Reader-response criticism.
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God in literature.
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Authors and readers -- United States -- History
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Authors and readers -- England -- History
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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American poetry
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Authors and readers
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God in literature
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Intimacy (Psychology) in literature
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Lyric poetry
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Reader-response criticism
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England
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United States
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Electronic books
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History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400826711 |
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1400826713 |
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069113474X |
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9780691134741 |
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