Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of PoetryJHU Press, 2020年3月24日 - 318页 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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... fall by the wayside quite naturally in the course of time and that they need no vigorous dis- missal or noisy exposure of their unworthiness.2 I confess that this is not always easy to believe . It is especially difficult when I see ...
... fall into habitual sentiments , familiar metaphors , and conventional symbols when adopting such a form . One need read through only a few of the numberless Elizabethan sonnet sequences to notice how wearily re- petitive they can become ...
... we wish to be thought of and how we have come to feel about ourselves . Initially , when we fall in love , this does not appear as any sort of danger or , indeed , as anything to be deplored Shakespeare and the Sonnet.
... fall back upon reassur- ing proverbial wisdom ( To err is human , No one is perfect ) , and , while ac- knowledging our pain , to temper our feelings with the suspicion that , in our idolatry of the beloved , we may have imagined an ...
... fall from grace in the Garden of Eden and of man's first disobedience . ( Milton him- self was to write of that paradise , " Flow'rs of all hue , and without thorn the rose " [ PL , IV.256 ] ) . This fallen world is thus a kind of ...
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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 |