The poetry of Anthony Hecht has been praised by Harold Bloom and Ted Hughes, among others, for its sure control of difficult material and its uniqu...
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May 07, 2010
Steve
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This was his last collection. I had the good fortune to see him read from this at Chapters Bookstore, in Washington, DC. He was a real class act. We got the chance to ask him some questions at the end of the reading, and I asked him who he preferred, Donne or Herbert? I guess I asked a good one, because he paused for a moment, and then said that when he was younger, Donne, but as he was getting older, he found he preferred Herbert. (The reason I asked the question was because I had a copy of The
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Feb 10, 2012
Amanda
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Clever, lots of myths and portrayals of fict-historical characters, which automatically puts most of these poems toward the top of my list.
May 03, 2009
Richard
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Mr. Hecht is a formalist, but that shouldn't stop you, he's brilliant, witty, and skewed just enough to be illuminating.
Oct 03, 2011
Holly
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Better than The Hard Hours and Millions of Strange Shadows. Still haven't read the Venetian Vespers though.
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