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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... poem was thereby proven to be faulty and inferior. In this, poetry distinguishes itself from criticism. As Eliot wrote in 1932, “No exponent of criticism ... has ... ever made the preposterous assumption that criticism is an autotelic ...
... Poets can be bad , as they can be good , in any num- ber of ways , and both the metered and meterless can exhibit emotional in- discipline , smug self - satisfaction , indolence of mind , and every kind of flaccidity . Too often such poems ...
... poetic forms all too often become associated with conven- tions of feeling — the sonnet initially with love poetry ... poem's elegance but to its persuasive music . Here , for 3. Paul Fussell Jr. , Poetic Meter and Poetic Form ( 1965 ) ...
... poem's absolute and perfect severance from historical and social con- texts and the irrelevance to the poem of biographical data about its author . A poem , it was held , was about itself , a self - contained universe , fulfilling 4 ...
... poem was thereby proven to be faulty and inferior . In this , poetry distinguishes itself from criticism . As Eliot wrote in 1932 , " No exponent of criticism ... has . . ever made the preposterous assumption that criticism is an ...
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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 |