Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery by Helen Vendler

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

Helen Vendler

nonfiction essays poetry challenging reflective medium-paced

95 pages | first published 2005

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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 Herber...
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