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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... kind seeking to be revolutionary , breaking all rules , de- fiant of normal canons of taste or morals , shocking , sensational , outraged and outrageous . The obvious problem is that very good poetry has been composed in this spirit ...
... kind of flaccidity . Too often such poems fail the way a joke badly told will fail : the teller sits back grinning in foolish triumph and still more foolish expecta- tion of uproarious laughter , only to be greeted by embarrassed ...
... kind of generous thinking can end in the danger of our viewing our- selves as supine and servile and lead to an active form of self - hatred . So to guard against that danger and against any tendency to blame the beloved , we may find ...
... kind of paradox , where " loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud . " What is being said here is com- plex . " Loathsome canker " is strong language , potentially wounding to the beloved : will it seem vengeful ? The speaker may hope ...
... kind of grief . On being told his newly married wife is dead , Pericles exclaims : O you gods ! Why do you make us love your goodly gifts And snatch them straight away ? ( Per . III.i.22-24 ) Something of Ben Jonson's anguished cry upon ...
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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 |