Collected Later Poems
Collected Later Poems by Anthony Hecht is a poetry collection shaped by memory and the passage of time.
Work Information
Collected Later Poems remains a work that continues to attract readers.
Collected Later Poems is a poetry collection by Anthony Hecht that rewards attention to language and lingering resonance.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Published
- 2003-09-23
- Pages
- 256 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.55 x 2.62 x 24.23 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781400041381
- ISBN-10
- 1400041384
- Price
- 10735 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
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 Darkness and the Light . The perfect companion to his Collected Earlier Poems (continuously in print since 1990), this book brings the eloquent sound of Hecht’s music to bear on a wide variety of human dramas: from a young woman dying of leukemia to the tangled love affairs of A Midsummer Night’s Dream; from Death as the director of Hollywood films to the unexpected image of Marcel Proust as a figure skater. He glides with a gaining confidence, inscribes Tentative passages, thinks again, backtracks, Comes to a minute point, Then wheels about in widening sweeps and lobes, Large Palmer cursives and smooth entrelacs, Preoccupied, intent On a subtle, long-drawn style and pliant script Incised with twin steel blades and qualified Perfectly to express, With arms flung wide or gloved hands firmly gripped Behind his back, attentively, clear-eyed, A glancing happiness.
Anthony Hecht is the author of seven books of poetry, including The Hard Hours, which received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1968. He is also the author of several volumes of essays and criticism, among them a book-length study of the poetry of W. H. Auden called The Hidden Law . He has received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry (1983), the Eugenio Montale Award (1984), the Wallace Stevens Award (1997), and the Robert Frost Medal (2000). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Reviews
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Great Poet. Book in really good shape.
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Someone--whether the publisher or Amazon I do not know--has comprehensively botched the Kindle edition of this marvelous book, scrambling Anthony Hecht's carefully-arranged verses in a way that would make the author cringe. Until the responsible parties fix this problem, admirers of Hecht's poetry shoud avoid the Kindle edition.