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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... tion to England of its ancestral faith . Stanza 12 also begins the composi- tion of place , the devotional attempt to realize imaginatively in all its par- ticularity , the time , place , and conditions that obtained on the night and ...
... tion with defiant extravagance : " The path of my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails , whereon my soul is grooved to run . Over unsounded gorges , through the rifled hearts of mountains , under torrents ' beds , unerringly I rush ...
... tion of the Pequod , expected to last for years , departs punctually on Christmas Day , either in flat defiance of conventional domestic ritual and established religion or else with implied Christian sanction of the business ethic , to ...
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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 |