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Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)
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This compilation of essays by perhaps the finest, most elegant poet writing on either side of the Atlantic has its faults. The first one to catch the eye is that the first two essays on the Sonnet repeat each other, word for word, in several places. But taking the work, which covers many subjects in addition to the "Melodies Unheard," which is saved ... »
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Collected Earlier Poems
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Contains the complete texts of Millions of Strange Shadows, The Venetian Vespers, and The Hard Hours (for which he won the Pulitzer prize). Hechts poems are formal and savage. You'd be hard pressed to find another poet who can write with such grace and ferocity. From jealous love to the holocaust, Hecht approaches every topic. One of America's greatest... »
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Collected Later Poems
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Hecht is a poet of elegance and clarity, of classical learned lines reflecting a rich personal experience. He is too someone who looks at life with a hard realism which comes from his not easy - life including second world- war combat and being one of the American soldiers who liberated the concentration camp Flossenburg.
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Flight Among the Tombs: Poems
Flight Among the Tombs, Anthony Hecht's sixth book of poems published since 1954, shows one of America's foremost poets working at the top of his... »
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Second Sight (National Poetry Series)
Jonathan Aaron, Second Sight (Harper Colophon, 1982)Of the books presented in the 1982 National Poetry Series, the only poet who has since emerged as a... »
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