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Based on the Farnum Lectures she delivered at Princeton in 2003, “Invisible Listeners” is built around three essays on three very different poets—George Herbert, Walt Whitman, and John Ashbery—who, Vendler argues, share a common desire to find companionship or hold colloquy with some fundamentally inaccessible “other...
...Vendler points out early in the book, apostrophe—turning away from the verse or “strophe” to someone else reading or hearing it—has long been considered one of the fundamental gestures of lyric poetry...
...particular character of the apostrophe with which Professor Vendler is concerned—the turn to the “invisible”—has a particular set of implications that cannot be reduced to this level of generality. (And which distinguishes it from the baiting of the “lede graph” of this column...
There is a fundamental difference, Vendler suggests, between the kind of claim a writer makes on others, who are present and contemporary with her, and her attempt to access hypothetical or potential readers, removed in space and time...
...Vendler distinguishes between these two modes of speech as “horizontal” and “vertical...