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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... become annoyed when a poet of unchecked sentimentality or mindless elation passes himself off as an heir of Blake . The unformulated urge to be " original " is easily satisfied with whatever passes for the " unconventional , " which ...
... become associated with conven- tions of feeling — the sonnet initially with love poetry — and it became easy to fall into habitual sentiments , familiar metaphors , and conventional symbols when adopting such a form . One need read ...
... become the preferred form , used by Milton , Wordsworth , and many more recent poets . The Shakespearean sonnet , too , is named after its most famous practi- tioner , but as a form it was already firmly established , used by Shake ...
... become important in the poetry may play quite a negligible part in the man , the personality ... One error , in fact , of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express ; 18. William Wordsworth , " Scorn not the ...
... become something that can be recognized involuntarily , as a dancer will recognize the rhythms of a waltz , a fox - trot , or a tango , each with its identifiable idiom and pattern . In the same way , a reader of poetry will in due ...
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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 |