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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... true vine, and my Father is the husbandman,”8 if Jesus is emblematically “the fruit of the vine” and his blood the wine of the sacrament which he shares with his disciples at the Last Supper, saying “This is my blood,” then someone who ...
... true laments but ease a lover's smart ; Then should my plaints the thunder's noise surmount , And tears like seas should flow from out my eyes ; Then sighs like air should far exceed all count , And true laments with sorrow dim the ...
... true vine , and my Father is the husbandman , " if Jesus is emblematically " the fruit of the vine " and his blood the wine of the sacrament which he shares with his disciples at the Last Supper , saying " This is my blood , " then ...
... true a fool is love that in your will ( Though you do any thing ) he thinks no ill . This is more than merely abject ; " true " in these lines means not only gen- 16. Lewis , Allegory of Love , 2 . 17. Ibid . , 3 . uinely and ...
... True Cross.19 Those who cherish the Sonnets for their documentary value are inclined to dismiss as irrelevant , if not actually wrong , T. S. Eliot's pronouncement in " Tradition and the Individual Talent " : the poet has , not a ...
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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 |