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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... sense of humor , dismissing as dull - witted all those who failed to approve of his jest . He is sure to find a few more dull - witted than he , who will commend his skills be they never so little . By now I have largely , almost ...
... sense that love opens enormous vistas of novel reflection , not all of it flattering . Loving another human being , we find that our motives are no longer disinterested ; everything we do or feel is no longer purely a per- sonal matter ...
... amiss , Excusing thy sins more than their sins are ; 1 1. A variant reading of this line is as follows : " Excusing thy sins more than thy sins are . " See For to thy sensual fault I bring in sense— Thy 20 Melodies Unheard.
... sense— Thy adverse party is thy advocate— And ' gainst myself a lawful plea commence : Such civil war is in my love and hate That I an accessory needs must be To that sweet thief which sourly robs from me . ( Sonnet 35 ) The first line ...
... sense that youth , injudiciously or wantonly expended , brings about its own forfeiture , is restated in other terms in Sonnet 94 , where Shakespeare writes of those who " rightly do inherit heaven's graces / And husband nature's riches ...
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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 |