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Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery
Invisible Listeners Lyric Intimacy in Herbert Whitman and Ashbery
Author: Helen Vendler
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 Fran...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691134741
ISBN-10: 069113474X
Publication Date: 8/27/2007
Pages: 112
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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