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

by Helen Vendler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069113474X
• ISBN13: 9780691134741
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 8.3"