Collected Earlier Poems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hecht, Anthony

Contributor:

Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress)

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

Summary:

The Hard Hours (1968): -- "Anthony Hecht's first volume of poems, A Summoning of Stones, established him as one of the most accomplished of his extremely accomplished generation. His work was remarkable enough for its classical poise and elegance, but it also had a weight which set it apart. Since then his poetry has come clear in a direction nobody could have predicted ... He did the most difficult thing of all: this most fastidious and elegant of poets shed every artifice and began to write with absolute raw simplicity and directness. Only a poet with an immense burden of something to say ever dreams of taking this course, and only an inspired artist can bring it off. The result here has been some of the most powerful and unforgettable poems at present being written in America," (Ted Hughes).

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.