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Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery
Helen Vendler
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Description for Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery
Paperback. What impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy? This book argues that such poets must invent the language that will enact, on the page, an intimacy they lack in life. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 134 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
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 poets over three different centuries, Vendler maps out ... Read more
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 poets over three different centuries, Vendler maps out ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691134741
SKU
V9780691134741
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About Helen Vendler
Helen Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor of English at Harvard University. Her most recent books include "Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats; Coming of Age As a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath"; and "Seamus Heaney". Her reviews of contemporary poetry and criticism have appeared in the "New York Review of Books", the "New Yorker", the "New Republic", and ... Read more
Reviews for Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery
"Helen Vendler['s] ... Invisible Listeners, a compact study of "lyric intimacy" in three poets, demonstrates, if you have forgotten, some of the best reasons to read literary criticism."
Langdon Hammer, The New York Times Book Review "[A] compact and lively little book... Vendler's brisk and light touch, her ability to pick at a line for every bit of meaning, makes this ... Read more
Langdon Hammer, The New York Times Book Review "[A] compact and lively little book... Vendler's brisk and light touch, her ability to pick at a line for every bit of meaning, makes this ... Read more