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Anthony Evan Hecht

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Anthony Evan Hecht

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1923-01-16 （New York City, New York, U.S.）
死没
2004-10-20 （Washington, D.C., U.S.） 81歳
国籍
United States
言語
English
宗教
Judaism (family background)
居住地歴
New York City (birth–) → Annandale-on-Hudson (burial at Bard College cemetery) → Washington, D.C. (later life)

経歴

職業
Poet, Translator, Professor, Critic
活動期間
1944年〜2004年
所属
University of Rochester (faculty), Kenyon College (student/teacher association), Bard College (faculty/burial site), Smith College (visiting faculty), Harvard University (visiting faculty), Georgetown University (visiting faculty), Yale University (visiting faculty), Library of Congress, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (1982–1984)
所属団体
Academy of American Poets (association), Library of Congress (Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry)
影響を受けた人物
W. H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas

学歴

Bard College
期間: 1940年代（在学）
国: United States
Discovered poetry while an undergraduate
Kenyon College
English
学位: BA
期間: 1946–1947（GI法利用）
国: United States
Studied under John Crowe Ransom
Columbia University
English
学位: MA
期間: 1940年代後半
国: United States
Master's degree focusing on poetry and criticism
University of Iowa
Iowa Writers' Workshop (teaching)
期間: 1947（在職／教員）
国: United States
Taught briefly then left due to PTSD

受賞歴

Guggenheim Fellowship
1954
主催: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果: 受賞
Rome Prize
1952
主催: American Academy in Rome
結果: 受賞
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
1968
対象作品: The Hard Hours
主催: Pulitzer Prize Board
結果: 受賞
Bollingen Prize
1983
主催: Bollingen Prize committee
結果: 受賞
Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
1988
主催: Ruth Lilly Foundation
結果: 受賞
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
1989
主催: Aiken Taylor Award committee
結果: 受賞
Wallace Stevens Award
1997
主催: Academy of American Poets
結果: 受賞
Robert Frost Medal
2000
主催: Academy of American Poets
結果: 受賞
National Medal of Arts
2004
主催: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
結果: 追贈（死後授与）

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

A Summoning of Stones

1954年 Poetry collection

Early collection showcasing formal control and technical skill.

formtraditionpersonal memory

The Hard Hours

1967年 Poetry collection

Centered on WWII experiences and their aftermath; won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize.

wartraumamemory

Millions of Strange Shadows

1977年 Poetry collection

A mature collection notable for classical allusions and literary echoes.

classical allusionmemoryhuman condition

The Venetian Vespers

1979年 Poetry collection

Contains poems weaving Italian and European cultural backgrounds.

Europecultural memory

The Transparent Man

1990年 Poetry collection

A later collection marked by technical craft and intellectual play.

formintellectual themes

Flight Among the Tombs

1998年 Poetry collection

Includes poems revisiting war, death, and memory in mid-late career.

deathmemoryhistory

The Darkness and the Light

2001年 Poetry collection

A late collection offering reflective meditations on life and history.

lifehistoryreflection

Collected Earlier Poems

1990年 Collected poems (earlier)

Selection of early poems; noted by Harold Bloom in The Western Canon.

overview of early work

全著作

  • A Summoning of Stones (1954)
  • The Hard Hours (1967)
  • Millions of Strange Shadows (1977)
  • The Venetian Vespers (1979)
  • The Transparent Man (1990)
  • Collected Earlier Poems (1990)
  • Flight Among the Tombs (1998)
  • The Darkness and the Light (2001)
  • Collected Later Poems (2003)
  • Collected Poems of Anthony Hecht (ed. Philip Hoy, 2023)
  • Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes (translation, 1973; with Helen H. Bacon)
  • Obbligati: Essays in Criticism (1986)
  • The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W. H. Auden (1993)
  • On the Laws of the Poetic Art (1995)
  • Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (2003)

作家による翻訳

  • Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes (translation, with Helen H. Bacon, 1973)

作風・主題

文体
mastery of traditional formsstrict metrical and technical controlerudite allusion and literary reference
頻出モチーフ
war and traumamemory and guiltclassical literary allusiondeath and loss

健康

  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), nervous breakdown
    1940年代後半〜1950年代（終生影響）
    War experiences caused nightmares and breakdowns, leading to hospitalization and psychoanalysis; had a lasting impact on his poetry and worldview.

評価・遺産

Anthony Hecht is regarded as a poet who embodied a revival of traditional form. Known for addressing war and personal memory with technical mastery and erudite allusion, he received numerous awards and is commemorated by the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize (Waywiser Press).

記念館・博物館

  • Bard College Cemetery (memorial site) Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

関連学会

  • Academy of American Poets (associated)

資料所蔵先

  • Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University (Anthony Hecht papers, 1894–2005)

大衆文化への影響

  • Featured in major anthologies and criticism, including selection in Harold Bloom's The Western Canon.
  • The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize awarded by Waywiser Press

引用

  • The place, the suffering, the prisoners' accounts were beyond comprehension. For years after I would wake shrieking.
    出典: The New York Times (obituary) (2004年)

豆知識

  • As a young man his parents attempted to dissuade him from becoming a poet and enlisted Dr. Seuss (Ted Geisel) to intervene (anecdotally reported).
  • He is buried in the Bard College cemetery.
  • Waywiser Press administers the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize named in his honor.