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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... sometimes violent violation ) of expecta- tions . And this has been almost from the first the source of dramatic force and effect . Sophocles ' Oedipus could head the list . For some , the formal as- pects of lyric poetry — that a ...
... sometimes angered by this matter . I am not an anti - Semite and never have been . It is a terrible slander on a man . And they do not know , as you and I do , that in the eyes of the Church to be anti - Semitic is a sin " ( the per ...
... sometimes richly rewarding and valuable , if they are not insisted upon to the exclusion of anything else about the work . I hope I have employed such a perspective with suitable tact in my comments here on Elizabeth Bishop's poem " The ...
... sometimes used hexameters , and there have been other variations . The fourteen - line sonnet can be divided into two sorts , the Italian or Pe- trarchan , on the one hand , and the Shakespearean , on the other . The Ital- 6. Walter ...
... sometimes been asserted . Indeed , though the Son- nets were not published until much later , in 1598 Francis Meres , in Palladis Tamia : Wit's Treasury , already referred to the circulation of Shakespeare's " sugred Sonnets among his ...
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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 |