{"product_id":"collected-earlier-poems-of-anthony-hecht-the-complete-texts-of-the-hard-hours-millions-of-strange-shadows-and-the-venetian-vespers-paperback","title":"Collected Earlier Poems of Anthony Hecht: The Complete Texts of The Hard Hours, Millions of Strange Shadows, and The Venetian Vespers - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnthony Hecht\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE VENETIAN VESPERS (1979)\u003cbr\u003e\"In its clear-eyed mercy toward human weakness, Anthony Hecht's poetry goes from strength to strength. \u003ci\u003eThe Venetian Vespers\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an intense corroboration and an ample extension of his subtle, supple talents. Nothing humane is alien to him... There is a handful of short poems that are fostered alike by beauty and fear. But it is the four long poems that confirm Hecht as a poet of the widest apprehensions and comprehension, and this without the gigantism that so haunts American poetic ambition.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Christopher Ricks, \u003ci\u003e The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMILLIONS OF STRANGE SHADOWS (1977)\u003cbr\u003e\"The high artistry of Anthony Hecht has been to nurture his own gift, and to work at it with the deliberateness and steadiness that it deserved from him... Emotional intensity and formal power were combined in Hecht from his beginnings... The thirty poems in \u003ci\u003eMillions of Strange Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e are all fully \u003ci\u003ewritten\u003c\/i\u003e, but several truly are the best he has published and are very likely to endure. The very best is 'Green: An Epistle, ' which is a lesson in profound, controlled subjectivity and self-revelation, an exact antithesis to the opaque squalors of 'confessional' poets. Almost equally remarkable is 'Coming Home, ' in which the poet John Clare receives a deeper interpretation than any critic has afforded him...\" \u003cbr\u003e--Harold Bloom, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HARD HOURS (1968)\u003cbr\u003e\"Anthony Hecht's first volume of poems, \u003ci\u003eA Summoning of Stones\u003c\/i\u003e, established him as one of the most accomplished of his extremely accomplished generation. His work was remarkable enough for its classical poise and elegance, but it also had a weight which set it apart. Since then his poetry has come clear in a direction nobody could have predicted...He did the most difficult thing of all: this most fastidious and elegant of poets shed every artifice and began to write with absolute raw simplicity and directness. Only a poet with an immense burden of something to say ever dreams of taking this course, and only an inspired artist can bring it off. The result here has been some of the most powerful and unforgettable poems at present being written in America,\"\u003cbr\u003e--Ted Hughes\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthony Hecht (1923-2004) was born in New York. His first book of poems, \u003ci\u003eA Summoning of Stones\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in 1954, and his second book, \u003ci\u003eThe Hard Hours\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1968. \u003ci\u003eMillions of Strange Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1977, followed by \u003ci\u003eThe Venetian Vespers \u003c\/i\u003ein 1979. All of these are included here in \u003ci\u003eCollected Earlier Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(the first in selected forms). His later volumes, \u003ci\u003eThe Transparent Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1990), \u003ci\u003eFlight Among the Tombs \u003c\/i\u003e(1996), and \u003ci\u003eThe Darkness and the Light \u003c\/i\u003e(2001) are gathered in \u003ci\u003eCollected Later Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(2003). He was also the author of a study of the poetry of W. H. Auden, \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Law\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), as well as several collections of critical essays, including \u003ci\u003eMelodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (2003). Among other honors, he received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Librex-Guggenheim Eugenio Montale Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, and the Robert Frost Medal. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 9.24 x 5.75 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 25, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765509816608,"sku":"9780679733577","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ed36adf71bcf9e2bad08ed99927a0352.webp?v=1780272201","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/collected-earlier-poems-of-anthony-hecht-the-complete-texts-of-the-hard-hours-millions-of-strange-shadows-and-the-venetian-vespers-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}