Calling from diffusion : hermeneutics of the promenade
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.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
vii, 88 pages ; 23 cm
9781558493506, 1558493506
1049754315
I. Performances of Perception
II. Circles and Variations
III. Utopias of Solitude
IV. Getting Engaged
Afterword: The Morality of Literary Interpretation