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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... conventional itself . I know a writer who , as the author of sen- sational prose , looks for that same immediate shock effect in poetry , seek- 2. " Some books are undeservedly forgotten ; none are undeservedly remembered . " W. H. Au ...
... conventional symbols when adopting such a form . One need read through only a few of the numberless Elizabethan sonnet sequences to notice how wearily re- petitive they can become . Even so , sometimes their formal constraints can add ...
... conventionally sanitized by labels of civility , ar- tifice , and pastoral innocence . There is , in short , not a poem or sequence of poems dealt with here that I have not found richly instructive in the course of 14 Melodies Unheard.
... conventional and might initially seem to confirm the permis- siveness and generosity of the first line , did they not almost unwittingly introduce the appalling note of universal corruption . And from there on we move into increasing ...
... conventional definition ; the third is a poem in tetrameter couplets twenty lines long . So it should be said here that there are at least two dis- tinct definitions of the sonnet . One of them is not formally precise ; it is given by ...
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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 |