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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... mind as to the utter independence of poetry from historical and biographical inquiry was William Empson, who was able to make a vivid case for the relevance of the English Reformation to some images in Shakespeare's Sonnet 73, “That ...
... mind, if not of 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 ...
... mind at least , to foist the blame , or some part of it , onto the editors I was hired to oblige . I could have eased my conscience ( if I'd felt the need ) by citing John Ruskin , who observed that " very bad pictures may be divided ...
... mind , and every 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 ...
... mind as to the utter independence of poetry from historical and biographical inquiry was William Empson , who was able to make a vivid case for the relevance of the English Reformation to some images in Shakespeare's Sonnet 73 , " That ...
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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 |