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Melodies Unheard:

Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry
  • ISBN-13: 9781421437361
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Anthony Hecht
  • Price: AUD $102.00
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2020
  • Format: Paperback 318 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Literary theory [DSA]
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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.

Contents:
IntroductionPART I
Skakespeare 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 ProsePART III
Moby-Dick
St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians
On Rhyme
The Music of Forms

""Earnestness with irony, epistemological ambition with ambiguity, complexity of feeling, fusion of emotion with music and idea'these are the modernist virtues Hecht both respects and exhibits.""

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