Collected Earlier Poems of Anthony Hecht: The Complete Texts of the Hard Hours, Millions of Strange Shadows, and the Venetian Vespers - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679733577ISBN-10:679733574UPC:9780679733577Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, PlacesSize:9.24 x 5.75 x 0.83 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCR9SHC9BT
Collected Earlier Poems of Anthony Hecht: The Complete Texts of the Hard Hours, Millions of Strange Shadows, and the Venetian Vespers
THE VENETIAN VESPERS (1979)
"In its clear-eyed mercy toward human weakness, Anthony Hecht's poetry goes from strength to strength. The Venetian Vespers 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...
"In its clear-eyed mercy toward human weakness, Anthony Hecht's poetry goes from strength to strength. The Venetian Vespers 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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679733577ISBN-10:679733574UPC:9780679733577Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, Loss, PlacesSize:9.24 x 5.75 x 0.83 inchesWeight:0.9304Product ID:SCR9SHC9BT
Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) was born in New York. His first book of poems, A Summoning of Stones, appeared in 1954, and his second book, The Hard Hours, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1968. Millions of Strange Shadows was published in 1977, followed by The Venetian Vespers in 1979. All of these are included here in Collected Earlier Poems (the first in selected forms). His later volumes, The...
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