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Calling from Diffusion: Hermeneutics of the Promenade
Thomas M. Greene
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Description for Calling from Diffusion: Hermeneutics of the Promenade
Paperback. Based on four Nielson Lectures, this text examines a series of "promenade poems", lyrics that follow a poetic speaker moving through a landscape and responding to it. A range of poets are considered including Amy Clampitt, A.R. Ammons, Petrarch, Milton, Vaughan, Marvell, Wordsworth and Whitman. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 6. Weight in Grams: 150.
Based on four Niclson Lectures delivered at Smith College, this book examines a series of ""promenade poems,"" lyrics that follow a poetic speaker moving through a landscape and responding to it. Thomas M. Greene invites the reader to consider a wide range of poets, beginning with Amy Clampitt and A. R. Ammons, continuing with Petrarch, Ronsard, Saint-Amant, Milton, Vaughan, and Marvell, and concluding with to two representative Romantics, Wordsworth and Whitman. Greene's discussions of this rich body of texts stimulate reflection at several levels. They can be read first of all simply as analyses of several memorable poems exhibiting a ... Read more
Based on four Niclson Lectures delivered at Smith College, this book examines a series of ""promenade poems,"" lyrics that follow a poetic speaker moving through a landscape and responding to it. Thomas M. Greene invites the reader to consider a wide range of poets, beginning with Amy Clampitt and A. R. Ammons, continuing with Petrarch, Ronsard, Saint-Amant, Milton, Vaughan, and Marvell, and concluding with to two representative Romantics, Wordsworth and Whitman. Greene's discussions of this rich body of texts stimulate reflection at several levels. They can be read first of all simply as analyses of several memorable poems exhibiting a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558493506
SKU
V9781558493506
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About Thomas M. Greene
THOMAS M. GREENE is Prederick Clifford Ford Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University. Among his books are The Descent from Heaven, The Light in Troy, and The Vulnerable Text.
Reviews for Calling from Diffusion: Hermeneutics of the Promenade
Greene's distinguished works have long established him as one of the most sophisticated, penetrating, and sensitive close readers of poetry in his generation. His international reputation rests on the elegance of his thinking and the eloquence of his writing.... This book is the mature work of a master, - Arthur P. Kinney, author of Humanist Poetics