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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... never mentions that the third staff is not intended to be played at all . There is one staff for the right hand , one for the left , and a third between them for an inaudible music : in her edition , Clara Schumann firmly marked this ...
... never felt sure about the discovery of Mr. Morris, that this bit is taken from the memoirs of Countess Marie Larisch, My Past (1913), because not one phrase from the book is echoed in the poem; but now Mrs. Eliot explains that the poet ...
... never ha[d] been.” I have added emphasis to the last four words because I will venture a guess that in due course, and especially after the widespread revelations of the hideous crimes of the Holocaust, Eliot might have had a change of ...
... never so little . By now I have largely , almost entirely , put behind me that militant sort of " severe reprobation " Ruskin found it a moral imperative to administer ; and I've done so with a sense of shame I was too young to feel at ...
... never felt sure about the discovery of Mr. Morris , that this bit is taken from the memoirs of Countess Marie Larisch , My Past ( 1913 ) , because not one phrase from the book is echoed in the poem ; but now Mrs. Eliot explains that the ...
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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 |