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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... force and effect . Sophocles ' Oedipus could head the list . For some , the formal as- pects of lyric poetry — that a sonnet is composed of fourteen lines of ( usu- ally ) iambic pentameter rhymed in a received way — were conventions ...
... 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 feelings for nature , that draws us [ ? ] " ) and ...
... forces of nature, the “eye of heaven,” can induce drought and parch the skin; in Sonnet 62 Shakespeare describes himself as “Beated and chopped with tanned antiquity.” The octave concludes with a vital distinction between “chance” and ...
... force thereby . The second quatrain is emotionally more ambiguous than the first , since death is explicitly mentioned , but its terrors are tempered by the soothing comparison with sleep , and more especially a sleep that " seals up ...
... forces of nature , the " eye of heaven , " can induce drought and parch the skin ; in Sonnet 62 Shakespeare describes himself as " Beated and chopped with tanned antiquity . " The octave concludes with a vital distinction between ...
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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 |