Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of PoetryJHU Press, 24/03/2020 - 318 páginas Originally published in 2003. The fruit of a lifetime's reading and thinking about literature, its delights and its responsibilities, this book by acclaimed poet and critic Anthony Hecht explores the mysteries of poetry, offering profound insight into poetic form, meter, rhyme, and meaning. Ranging from Renaissance to contemporary poets, Hecht considers the work of Shakespeare, Sidney, and Noel; Housman, Hopkins, Eliot, and Auden; Frost, Bishop, and Wilbur; Amichai, Simic, and Heaney. Stepping back from individual poets, Hecht muses on rhyme and on meter, and also discusses St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians and Melville's Moby-Dick. Uniting these diverse subjects is Hecht's preoccupation with the careful deployment of words, the richness and versatility of language and of those who use it well. Elegantly written, deeply informed, and intellectually playful, Melodies Unheard confirms Anthony Hecht's reputation as one of our most original and imaginative thinkers on the literary arts. |
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... Beauty ) , Leonardo , and Dürer , in which demonstration is made of the irrefragable principles upon which their work and the laws of perspective are based . " Feeling , " as a central concern of the artist , is of no moment to any of ...
... beauty—and not just the beauty of buds. We are disposed to think of Hamlet's description of his father as “so loving to my mother / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven / Visit her face too roughly” (Ham. I.ii.140–42). Even the ...
... beauty and delicacy of detail and describes the inexorable truth of the natural world's mutability . William Empson's imaginative account of the fourth line is famous : there is no pun , double syntax , or dubiety of feeling , in Bare ...
... beauty , and there is a sort of ambiguity in not knowing which of them to hold most clearly in mind . 9 But these boughs are either themselves ( by metaphoric transmutation ) the bare ruined choirs , which shake against the " cold ...
... beauty seemingly for- ever because they are by temperament " Unmoved , cold , and to tempta- tion slow . " And then we come to the deeply unnerving couplet . A number of crit- ics have observed that " To love that well " means either to ...
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Ruminations on Form Sex and History | 51 |
Sidney and the Sestina | 66 |
On Henry Noels Gaze Not on Swans | 86 |
Technique in Housman | 95 |
On Hopkins The Wreck of the Deutschland | 106 |
Uncle Toms Shantih | 122 |
Seamus Heaneys Prose | 205 |
MobyDick | 219 |
St Pauls Epistle to the Galatians | 238 |
On Rhyme | 252 |