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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.
Print Book, English, 2002
Smith College, Amherst, Mass., 2002
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