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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... observed that " very bad pictures may be divided into two principal classes those which are weak and passively bad , and which are to be pitied and passed by ; and those which are energetically or actively bad , and which demand severe ...
... observed that " much of the contemporary ambition to ' break out ' of in- herited metrical schemes , as if they were traps rather than opportunities , is distilled in the theory , and to some degree in the practice , of William Carlos ...
... observe this day throughout the generations as a practice for all time . " And they recite Exodus 13 : 3 , " Remember the day on which you went forth from Egypt , and from the house of bondage , and how the Lord freed you with a mighty ...
... observed that " To love that well " 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 ...
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Índice
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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 |