Melodies Unheard : Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry /
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 conte...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2019
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Table of Contents:
- Shakespeare and the sonnet
- The sonnet: ruminations on form, sex, and history
- Sidney and the sestina
- On Henry Noel's "Gaze not on swans"
- 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 Elizabeth Bishop
- Richard Wilbur: an introduction
- Yehuda Amichai
- Charles Simic
- Seamus Heaney's prose
- Moby-Dick
- St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians
- On rhyme
- The music of forms.