| Description |
1 online resource (xi unnumbered pages, 95 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-89) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Herbert, George, 1593-1633 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Herbert, George, 1593-1633. |
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Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Ashbery, John, 1927-2017. |
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. |
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Herbert, George, 1593-1633. |
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Ashbery, John, 1927- |
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Ashbery, John. |
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American poetry -- History and criticism.
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American poetry. |
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Intimacy (Psychology) in literature.
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Intimacy (Psychology) in literature. |
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Lyric poetry -- History and criticism.
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Lyric poetry. |
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Authors and readers -- United States.
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Authors and readers. |
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United States. |
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Authors and readers -- England.
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England. |
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Reader-response criticism.
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Reader-response criticism. |
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God in literature.
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God in literature. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Title |
Lyric intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Vendler, Helen, 1933- Invisible listeners. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005 9780691134741 |
| ISBN |
9781400826711 (electronic book) |
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1400826713 (electronic book) |
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069113474X |
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9780691134741 |
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9780691134741 |
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0691116180 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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9780691116181 (cloth ; acid-free paper) |
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