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Melodies Unheard
Essays On The Mysteries Of Poetry
by Anthony Hecht, J.D. McClatchy- Format: hardcover
- Release date: April 16, 2003
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- ISBN: 9780801869563 (0801869560)
- Language: english
- Genres: poetry, essays
- Author: Anthony Hecht, J.D. McClatchy
About The Book
In these essays, acclaimed poet and critic Anthony Hecht explores the ways in which poetry can be read and the many pleasures it affords. Ranging from Shakespeare’s sonnets to Eliot, Frost, and Simic, Melodies Unheard offers profound insight into poetic form, meter, rhyme, and meaning — into the mysteries of poetry itself. Anthony Hecht’s vast knowledge of literature and his gift for mesmerizing argument are both amply present in Melodies Unheard. Whether defending the sestina against accusations of boredom and dolefulness or examining the structure of Shakespeare’s sonnets or unraveling some of the complexity of Moby-Dick, these essays are models of civility, candor, and grace. I know of no other poet, certainly none of Anthony Hecht’s stature, who sheds as much light on the intricacies and hidden designs of poems and who does it with such style. — Mark Strand Anthony Hecht declares himself ‘a poet first and only secondarily a critic, ‘ but Melodies Unheard proves again that he is a master in both trades. His discourse on such subjects as rhyme, the sestina, and ‘the music of forms’ is both scholarly and delightful; his articles on individual poets are finely done; and best of al
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