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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... feel at the time of commission but which has grown with maturity and resembles the same belated regret Ruskin felt for his early vituperations . It was Auden who first taught me that inferior poetic talents will fall by the wayside ...
... feel- ing . " And as if further to underline the force and authority of his repetitive insistence , he proceeds in a note to cite Corot ( " Be guided by feelings alone " ) and van Gogh ( " Is it not emotion , the sincerity of one's ...
... feel a strong drag towards a return to the worship of the tortured victim . Now if you are hating a purse- proud business man who denies that Jesus is God , into what stereotype does he best fit ? He is a Jew , of course ; and yet this ...
... feel is no longer purely a per- sonal matter but is strangely compromised by our relationship with this other person ; our hopes and fears are generated not only by another but also by how we wish to be thought of and how we have come to ...
... feel it more important than it really was ( and therefore excuse it more than it needs ) " ; ( 3 ) " I bring extra sensuality to it ; I enjoy thinking about it and making arguments to defend it , so that my sensual- ity sympathizes with ...
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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 |