Selected Poems
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 War II, participated in the liberation of the concentration camps, lived and experienced the best and worst of the twentieth century. Readers of this volume-the first selected poems to be made from Hecht's seven individual volumes-will be captivated by Hecht's dark music and allusions to the literature of the past. As J. D. McClatchy explains in his introduction, Hecht was a poet for whom formal…
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Weitere Autoren: Mcclatchy, J. D. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-307-59897-4
- EAN: 9780307598974
- Produktnummer: 15739795
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'480 KB
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Anthony Hecht was born in 1923. He was the author of seven books of poetry, including The Hard Hours, which received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1968. He received the Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1983), the Eugenio Montale Award (1984), the Wallace Stevens Award (1997), and the Robert Frost Medal (2000). He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He died in 2004.
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