Poetry''s Touch: On Lyric Address
ISBN: 9781501717062
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Lyric poetry -- History and criticism; Point of view (Literature);

To whom does a poem speak? Do poems really communicate with those they address? Is reading poems like overhearing? Like intimate conversation? Like performing a script? William Waters pursues these questions by closely reading a selection of poems...


William Waters is Associate Professor of German at Boston University.

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