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Melodies unheard : essays on the mysteries of poetry / Anthony Hecht.
LIBRA - Special PS305 .H43 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hecht, Anthony, 1923-2004.
- Series:
- Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction
- Johns Hopkins, poetry & fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- English poetry--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 304 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Shakespeare and the Sonnet 19
- The Sonnet: Ruminations on Form, Sex, and History 51
- Sidney and the Sestina 66
- On Henry Noel's "Gaze Not on Swans" 86
- Technique in Housman 95
- On Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland" 106
- Uncle Tom's Shantih 122
- Paralipomena to The Hidden Law 131
- On Robert Frost's "The Wood-Pile" 154
- Two Poems by Elizabeth Bishop 159
- Richard Wilbur: An Introduction 172
- Yehuda Amichai 177
- Charles Simic 188
- Seamus Heaney's Prose 205
- Moby-Dick 219
- St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians 238
- On Rhyme 252
- The Music of Forms 275.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0801869560
- OCLC:
- 50761378
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