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100 1  Vendler, Helen,|d1933-|eauthor. 
245 10 Invisible listeners :|blyric intimacy in Herbert, Whitman,
       and Ashbery|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cHelen 
       Vendler. 
250    Unabridged. 
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511 1  Read by Marguerite Gavin. 
520    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 brilliantly insightful and gracefully
       written 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 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. By creating the forms and speech of ideal 
       intimacy, these poets set forth the possibility of a more 
       complete and satisfactory human interchange - an ethics of
       relation that is uncoerced, understanding, and free. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Whitman, Walt,|d1819-1892|xCriticism and interpretation. 
600 10 Herbert, George,|d1593-1633|xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 Ashbery, John,|d1927-2017|xCriticism and interpretation. 
650  0 American poetry|xHistory and criticism. 
650  0 Intimacy (Psychology) in literature. 
650  0 Lyric poetry|xHistory and criticism. 
650  0 Authors and readers|zUnited States. 
650  0 Authors and readers|zEngland. 
650  0 Reader-response criticism. 
650  0 God in literature. 
700 1  Gavin, Marguerite. 
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