Calling from Diffusion
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autonomy of imaginative texts
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comparative lyric analysis
contemplation embedded in verse
dynamics of poetic selfhood
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evolving modes of descriptive verse
expressive naming in verse
hermeneutic reflections on poetry
imaginative engagement with environment
inquiry into interpretive responsibility
intellectual history of poetic form
interplay of mind and world
interpretive ethics in literary study
interpretive studies of major poets
intersections of thought and description
intuition as a mode of knowing
landscape as catalyst for meaning
language as revelatory medium
literary phenomenology
lyric movement through landscape
meditative poetic journeys
metaphysical insights in lyric art
naming as interpretive action
nature-focused poetic encounters
philosophical approaches to language
philosophy intertwined with poetics
poetic attention to external forms
poetic ontology and presence
poetic speakers in motion
poetic tradition spanning eras
porous boundaries of consciousness
reading practices across periods
reflective phenomenology in poetry
Renaissance and Romantic continuities
sensibility shaped by surroundings
sensory dialogue with the world
seven-century lyric lineage
spatial exploration in poetry
theoretical debates in criticism
transhistorical readings of verse
verse shaped by encounter
voice emerging through observation
walking poems tradition
Product details
- ISBN 9781558493506
- Weight: 200g
- Dimensions: 153 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jan 2002
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 similar structure over a period of seven centuries. They can also be read as meditations on the workings of lyric poetry, which is always attempting to bring into sharper focus the sensibility of a speaker whose emergence depends on her naming and evoking the objects surrounding her. Thus Greene argues that the distinction of a poetic consciousness lies in its ""permeability,"" permitting a more intimate interplay between internal and external realms. His title is drawn from a line by Whitman: ""You objects that call from diffusion my meanings and give them shape!"" Finally, at yet another level, Greene's book presents a way of thinking about language which, recalling the Heideggerean theory of ""ereignis,"" suggests that only through the projective act of naming can human beings assimilate things through intuitive knowledge. An afterword, ""The Morality of Literary interpretation,"" surveys critically a range of hermeneutic theories and formulates a position that accords the literary text both autonomy and mystery.
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.
