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Anthony Hecht, now in his eightieth year, has earned a place
alongside such poets as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth
Bishop. Here under one cover are his three most recent
collections-"The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, "and" The
Darkness and the Light." The perfect companion to his "Collected
Earlier Poems "(continuously in print since 1990), this book brings
the eloquent sound of Hecht's music to bear on a wide variety of
human dramas: from a young woman dying of leukemia to the tangled
love affairs of "A Midsummer Night's Dream;" from Death as the
director of Hollywood films to the unexpected image of Marcel
Proust as a figure skater. "From the Hardcover edition."
A magisterial exploration of poetry’s place in the fine arts by one of the twentieth century's leading poets In this book, eminent poet Anthony Hecht explores the art of poetry and its relationship to the other fine arts. While the problems he treats entail both philosophic and theoretical discussion, he never allows abstract speculation to overshadow his delight in the written texts that he introduces, or in the specific examples of painting and music to which he refers. After discussing literature’s links with painting and music, Hecht investigates the theme of paradise and wilderness, especially in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. He then turns to the question of public and private art, exploring the ways in which all the arts participate in balances between private and public modes of discourse, and between an exclusive or elitist role and the openly political. Beginning with a discussion of architecture as an illustration of a more general theme of discord and balance, the penultimate lecture probes the inner contradictions of works of art and our reactions to them, while the final piece concerns art and morality.
The poetry of Anthony Hecht has been praised by Harold Bloom and
Ted Hughes, among others, for its sure control of difficult
material and its unique music and visual precision. This new volume
is the fruit of a mellowing maturity that carries with it a smoky
bitterness, a flavor of ancient and experienced wisdom, as in this
stanza from " Sarabande on Attaining the Age of Seventy-seven"
The formidable talents of Anthony Hecht, one of the most gifted of contemporary American poets, and Helen Bacon, a classical scholar, are here brought to bear on this vibrant translation of Aeschylus' much underrated tragedy The Seven Against Thebes. The third and only remaining play in a trilogy dealing with related events, The Seven Against Thebes tells the story of the Argive attempt to claim the Kingdom of Thebes, and of the deaths of the brothers Eteocles and Polyneices, each by the others hand. Long dismissed by critics as ritualistic and lacking in dramatic tension, Seven Against Thebes is revealed by Hecht and Bacon as a work of great unity and drama, one exceptionally rich in symbolism and imagery.
A Part of Speech contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands.
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.
Alongside Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, and other pillars of
twentieth-century poetry, Anthony Hecht joins the Borzoi Poetry
series.
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