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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... composed a few acidulous comments on some of these , couched , as I thought , in amusing or outright funny terms . I was probably able to half - absolve myself from the charge of cruelty on the grounds that I had been ordered to deal ...
... composed of fourteen lines of ( usu- ally ) iambic pentameter rhymed in a received way — were conventions from which it seemed overwhelmingly important to be freed . Paul Fussell Jr. observed that " much of the contemporary ambition to ...
... composed in the conventional fourteen - line form . Robert Giroux never- theless continues to refer to Love's Labour's Lost as " the sonnet play . " He would have done much better to have cited Romeo and Juliet , which em- ploys far ...
... composed of an octave — an initial passage of eight lines , rhyming abbaabba — followed by a sestet — six lines requiring only that each line have a rhyming mate . In addition to the sep- aration of octave from sestet by rhyme scheme ...
... composed of five feet , and each foot is com- posed , generally speaking , of two syllables , with the strong accent on the second of these , as in the naturally iambic words today or because . Any moderate acquaintance with the body of ...
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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 |