Melodies Unheard

Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4214-3736-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 318 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hecht, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Part I.
Shakespeare and the Sonnet
The Sonnet: Ruminations on Form, Sex, and History
Sidney and the Sestina
On Henry Noel's "Gaze Not on Swans"
Part II.
Technique in Housman
On Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland"
Uncle Tom's Shantih
Paralipomena to The Hidden Law
On Robert Frost's "The Wood-Pile"
Two Poems by Elisabeth Bishop
Richard Wilbur: An Introduction
Yehuda Amichai
Charles Simic
Seamus Heaney's Prose
Part III.
Moby-Dick
St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians
On Rhyme
The Music of Forms

Über Autor(innen)

Hecht, Anthony
Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was the author of seven poetry collections and several works of criticism. He was awarded the Pullizter Prize in 1968 for The Hard Hours and his other honors include the Bollingen Prize, the Eugenio Montale Award, the Ruth Lilly Prize, the Dorothea Tanning Award, and the Robert Frost Medal.