Melodies Unheard : Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

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Melodies Unheard : Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 318 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780801869563
  • DDC分類 809.1

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2003. Acclaimed poet and critic Anthony Hecht explores the ways in which poetry can be read and the many pleasures it affords.

Full Description

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 all, perhaps, are his penetrating treatments of particular poems--his reading of Bishop's 'The Man-Moth,' for instance, his biographical placement of Frost's 'The Wood-Pile,' his discussion of emotional paradox in Hopkins' 'The Wreck of the Deutschland.'When Hecht goes beyond the preserve of poetry, as in his forceful pieces on Moby-Dick and St. Paul, it is always a splendid bonus."--Richard Wilbur "The wise products of a preeminent practitioner of the art, Anthony Hecht's essays on poetry spring from a passionate curiosity about the work of his predecessors and peers. Their fit audience includes those figures themselves--Shakespeare and Sidney, Housman and Hopkins, Elizabeth Bishop and Seamus Heaney--and their other ardent readers. Uninterested in the kind of local poetics and short views that are based on positions and programs, Hecht converses with writers--poets and scholars alike--who are committed to the long tradition and the timeless individual talents it nourishes.
Although intensely personal (how many others have written originally on Frost's "The Wood-Pile," or subtly on three exemplary English translations of a virtually perfect lyric by Apollinaire, or on Henry Noel at all?)--no, because intensely personal--his essays on a broad range of topics will one by one fascinate a broad range of readers: to wit, those intrigued by the multifarious nuances, technical and philosophical, the unheard music, of literary genius."--Stephen Yenser

Contents

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