Anthony Hecht

Anthony Hecht (1923 - 2004)

Anthony Ivan Hecht (January 16, 1923 – October 20, 2004) was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, and the Holocaust being recurrent themes in his work.

Poems By Anthony Hecht

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A Letter (3 Comments »)
Chorus From Oedipus At Colonos (No Comments »)
Lizards And Snakes (1 Comment »)
More Light! More Light! (4 Comments »)
Paradise Lost Book 5: An Epitome (No Comments »)
Samuel Sewall (1 Comment »)
Sarabande On Attaining The Age Of Seventy-Seven (No Comments »)
The End Of The Weekend (No Comments »)
The Transparent Man (No Comments »)
Third Avenue In Sunlight (No Comments »)

Flight Among the Tombs

Prospects (No Comments »)
The Dover Bitch: A Criticism Of Life (1 Comment »)

The Darkness & The Light

Late Afternoon: The Onslaught Of Love (No Comments »)
Saul And David (No Comments »)
Witness (1 Comment »)

The Darkness And The Light

Lot’s Wife (No Comments »)

The Hard Hours

A Hill (No Comments »)

The Transparent Man

Curriculum Vitae (No Comments »)
Analysis, meaning and summary of Anthony Hecht's poem Curriculum Vitae
Alongside Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, and other pillars of twentieth-century poetry, Anthony Hecht joins the Borzoi Poetry series.Hecht, whose writing rings with the cadences of the King James Bible, and who, as an infantryman at the end of World...
Selected Poems (Borzoi Poetry)
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 THE VENETIAN VESPERS (1979)“In its clear-eyed mercy toward human weakness, Anthony Hecht’s poetry goes from strength to strength.  The Venetian Vespers is at once an intense corroboration and an ample extension of his subtle, supple talents.  Nothin...
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 THE VENETIAN VESPERS (1979)“In its clear-eyed mercy toward human weakness, Anthony Hecht’s poetry g... read more
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A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht is the first book-length study of one of the great formal poets of the later twentieth century (1923-2004). Making use of Hecht's correspondence, which the author edited, it situates Hecht's wri...
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Anthony Hecht, now in his eightieth year, has earned a place alongside such poets as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth Bishop. Here under one cover are his three most recent collections–The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, and The Dark...
Collected Later Poems
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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...
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