| Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery Subjects: American poetry -- History and criticism; Intimacy (Psychology) in literature; Whitman Walt 1819-1892 -- Criticism and interpretation; Herbert George 1593-1633 -- Criticism and interpretation; Ashbery John -- Criticism and interpretation; Lyric poetry; No detailed description available for "Invisible Listeners". 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. |