Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry

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JHU 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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Introduction I
1
Shakespeare and the Sonnet
19
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
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Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was the author of seven poetry collections and several works of criticism. He was awarded the Pullizter Prize in 1968 for The Hard Hours and his other honors include the Bollingen Prize, the Eugenio Montale Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Dorothea Tanning Award, and the Robert Frost Medal.

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