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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... Writers and Writing ( 1998 ) , 121–22 . trimmed down by cutting an adjective from every line and 290 Melodies Unheard.
... writing a sonnet . III If Michael Drayton was able to think of his poetry , excellent yet conven- tional though it be , as “ wild , madding , jocund , and irregular , " we must re- mind ourselves how standards of rigor will vary from ...
... Writers on Writing ( 2002 ) . " On Robert Frost's ' The Wood - Pile " : to Crossroads : Journal of the Poetry Society of America , no . 55 ( Autumn 2000 ) . " Two Poems by Elizabeth Bishop " : to Ashley Brown , guest editor of Verse 4 ...
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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 |