Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery

Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery

by HelenVendler (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 27 Aug 2007

ISBN 10: 069113474X
ISBN 13: 9780691134741