Download or read book Invisible Listeners written by Helen Vendler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a poet addresses a living person, we recognise the intimacy being evoked, but what causes a poet to invoke invisible listeners? Helen Vendler explores this area of poetry, focusing on the works of George Herbert, Walt Whitman and John Ashbery.