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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... means discover- ing that there was a mystery to be solved in the first place , because no one had noticed any need for scrutiny . Which is to say , the question of whether Auden is entitled to write , as he does in the poem " Under ...
... and poems discussed here have been , among oth- ers , my instructors , and the essays that follow mean to express some mea- sure of my indebtedness and gratitude . 1 PART I Shakespeare and the Sonnet It may be Introduction 15.
... means of metaphorical examples . There is good reason for him to apolo- gize . The instances that he cites from nature are consequences of our fallen state and are now unalterable . To describe the faults of the beloved in the same ...
... means either to treasure your own youth or to love the poem's speaker , whose old age and imagined death have been the subject of this poem . Either alternative presents problems of emo- tional complexity . If the beloved is being ...
... thing ) he thinks no ill . This is more than merely abject ; " true " in these lines means not only gen- 16. Lewis , Allegory of Love , 2 . 17. Ibid . , 3 . uinely and certifiably a fool but also " faithful . 32 Melodies Unheard.
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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 |