Charles Tomlinson and the Nameless You.
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. Functioning as a...
| Publicado en: | Names: A Journal of Onomastics Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 263 - 273 |
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University of Pittsburgh
Sep2006
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