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Author Vendler, Helen, 1933-2024

Title Invisible listeners : lyric intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery / Helen Vendler
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005

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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
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Subject 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
Herbert, George, 1593-1633 -- Criticism and interpretation
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation
Ashbery, John, 1927-2017
Herbert, George, 1593-1633
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
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
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
American poetry
Authors and readers
God in literature
Intimacy (Psychology) in literature
Lyric poetry
Reader-response criticism
England
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400826711
1400826713
069113474X
9780691134741
Other Titles Lyric intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery