Hmm
Hard to say:
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics calls it 'a figure of
speech which consists of addressing an absent or deaqd person, a thing, or
an abstract idea as if it were alive or present.' ANd then lists poems by
Virgil, Dante.
Wordsworth's 'Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour' ("London, 1802")
134 of Shakespeare's sonnets
Shelley's "Ode to a Skylark"
Pound's "Coda"
etc...
Douglas Barbour
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University of Alberta
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