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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... poet he deeply and profoundly admires , Empson makes a strategic attempt to rescue Eliot from imputations of anti ... poet's death . Empson stakes out his claim in these terms : Eliot wanted to grouse about his father , and lambasted ...
... poet before him and of the poet's making himself into a seem- ingly disinterested object lesson . In addition , this act of husbandry is cru- elly doomed , since youth is something " thou must leave ere long . " If , on the other hand ...
... poet promises to immortalize his beloved in deathless verse . It needs immediately to be said that this is not personal ... poet's capacity to confer immortality , it is not the only con- vention he employs in his sonnets . We commonly ...
... poet's exact and authentic feelings on every topic he addresses ? There are always readers who seek , not art , but ... poet has , not a " personality " to express , but a particular medium , which is only a medium and not a personality ...
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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 |