Collected Later Poems - Brossura

Hecht, Anthony

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375710302 ISBN 13: 9780375710308

Casa editrice: Knopf, 2005

Riassunto

In honor of his eightieth birthday, an omnibus edition brings together selections from the poet's three most recent collections--The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, and The Darkness and the Light--in which he contemplates the mortal fate of humankind with trademark wit, insight, and dark humor. Reprint.

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“Hecht’s highly formal poems sound majestic, orderly, and intense. He is one of the contemporary masters . . . of the high traditional English style . . . whatever poetry is supposed to do, it seldom gets more precise and articulate.”
–Peter Davison, Boston Globe

“Formal and exacting . . . [Hecht’s] elegant, insistent humanity, surfacing persistently like springs among the severe crags of his dark morality, will give his poetry life and interest long after the smoother pebbles of today’s more popular voices are washed to silence by the sea.”
–Cynthia Haven, Washington Post Book World

“Hecht is . . . one of the great synthesizers of the modern moment, a vistionary poet capable of conveying private experience in public forms . . . No other poet in English has fashioned such disillusioned beauty.”
–David Mason, The Weekly Standard

“This book is a magnificent addition to the library of any reader who still values verse.”
–John Mark Eberhart, Kansas City Star

From the Hardcover edition.

L'autore:

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.
From the Hardcover edition.

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• Editore: Knopf
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0375710302
• ISBN 13: 9780375710308
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256