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050 00 $aPS310.I57$bV46 2005
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100 1 $aVendler, Helen,$d1933-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79095151
245 10 $aInvisible listeners :$blyric intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery /$cHelen Vendler.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $a95 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 81-89) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction : invisible listeners --$g1.$tGeorge Herbert and God --$g2.$tWalt Whitman and the reader-in-futurity --$g3.$tJohn Ashbery and the artist of the past --$tConclusion : domesticating the unseen.
520 1 $a"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 readings of these three great poets over three different centuries, Vendler maps out their relationships with their chosen listeners. For his part, Herbert revises the usual "vertical" address to God in favor of a "horizontal" one, addressing God as a friend. Whitman hovers in a sometimes erotic, sometimes quasi-religious language in conceiving the democratic camerado, who will, following Whitman's example, find his true self. And yet the camerado will be replaced, in Whitman's verse, by the ultimate invisible listener, Death. Ashbery, seeking a fellow artist who believes that art always distorts what it represents, finds he must travel to the remote past. In tones both tender and skeptical he addresses Parmigianino, whose extraordinary self-portrait in a convex mirror furnishes the poet with both a theory and a precedent for his own inventions."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117586
650 0 $aIntimacy (Psychology) in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005236
600 10 $aWhitman, Walt,$d1819-1892$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aHerbert, George,$d1593-1633$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aAshbery, John,$d1927-2017$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aLyric poetry$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106718
650 0 $aAuthors and readers$zUnited States.
650 0 $aAuthors and readers$zEngland.
650 0 $aReader-response criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85111643
650 0 $aGod in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85055589
852 00 $bglx$hPS310.I57$iV46 2005