Charles Tomlinson and the Nameless You
Abstract The British poet Charles Tomlinson (1927--) frequently addresses his poems to a specific but unnamed listener-companion. Such deliberate concealment of identity achieves a paradoxical effect: it stimulates readers’ curiosity and heightens the importance of the name that is withheld. Functio...
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2006-09-01
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| Series: | Names |
| Online Access: | http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/1764 |