Vendler Invisible Listeners

Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2671-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 112 Seiten

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 other publications.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vendler, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction Invisible Listeners 1

CHAPTER ONE: George Herbert and God 9

CHAPTER TWO: Walt Whitman and the Reader-in-Futurity 31

CHAPTER THREE: John Ashbery and the Artist of the Past 57

Conclusion Domesticating the Unseen 79

Notes 81

Index 91

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Vendler (1933–2024) was the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor of English at Harvard University. Her 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 other publications.