Calling from diffusion
Subtitle: hermeneutics of the promenade
By: Thomas M. Greene.
Publisher: Smith College; Distributed by the University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Northampton, Mass; Amherst, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Poetry -- History and criticism
Description: "Based on four Neilson 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, and continuing with Petrarch, Ronsard, Saint-Amant, Milton, Vaughan, Marvell and Whitman.

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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Rev. lectures in English, with poems in English, French, Italian, and Latin.
Includes bibliographical references.