Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of PoetryJohns Hopkins University Press, 2003 M05 22 - 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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... song , of course , is the one that ends the play : " When daisies pied and violets blue . ” But as to the three ... Songs and Sonets ( 1633 ) contained not a single poem composed in the conventional fourteen - line form . Robert Giroux ...
... song and in lyric devotion to a lost or absent loved one . These independent traditions , of sometimes lighthearted and cheer- ful rivalry and competition between shepherds for excellence at song , and the other , melancholy and painful ...
... song as solo , as madrigal , as a cappella groups of various sizes , as rounds and catches , there were few poets and Shakespeare , it may be affirmed , was not one of them — who were indifferent to these demands . Among the most ele ...
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Introduction I | 1 |
Shakespeare and the Sonnet | 19 |
Ruminations on Form Sex and History | 51 |
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In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry Kate Braid,Sandy Shreve Sin vista previa disponible - 2005 |