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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... heart, as Empson testifies that he did in regard to rejecting his early feeling that “it was almost impossible to be a Christian after studying the Far Eastern religions.” My New Critical apprenticeship meant that I was late in coming ...
... heart , If melting sighs would pity gain , Or true laments but ease my smart ; Then should my plaints all sounds surmount , And tears like seas flow from my eyes ; Then sighs should far exceed all count And lamentations dim the skies ...
... heart , as Empson testifies that he did in regard to rejecting his early feeling that " it was almost impossible to be a Christian after studying the Far Eastern religions . " 7. Empson , Using Biography , 197 . 8. Throughout this ...
... hearts and write . Such intro- spection and honesty are not easy in any age , and it is the general con- sensus that , of all the sonneteers , Shakespeare was beyond question the 4. Compare Sonnet 94 : " For sweetest things turn sourest ...
... heart , and what may instead be attributed to a traditional posture belonging to the kind of fourteen - line love poem that he inherited . Are we to regard these poems as anything other than the surviving pages of an intimate diary ...
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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 |