Anthony Hecht
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.
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Collected Earlier Poems
eBook | 288 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-307-80514-0 (0-307-80514-X)
August 8, 2012 | $20.99
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...
Written by Anthony Hecht
eBook | 288 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-307-80514-0 (0-307-80514-X)
August 8, 2012 | $20.99
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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...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Darkness and the Light
eBook | 80 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-307-48359-1 (0-307-48359-2)
February 8, 2012 | $13.99
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 unique music and visual precision. This new volume is the fruit of a mellowing maturity that carries with it a smoky bitterness, a flavor of ancient...
Written by Anthony Hecht
eBook | 80 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-307-48359-1 (0-307-48359-2)
February 8, 2012 | $13.99
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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 unique music and visual precision. This new volume is the fruit of a mellowing maturity that carries with it a smoky bitterness, a flavor of ancient...
Selected Poems
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American; Literary Collections - American
978-0-375-71198-5 (0-375-71198-8)
March 22, 2011 | $25.00
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...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American; Literary Collections - American
978-0-375-71198-5 (0-375-71198-8)
March 22, 2011 | $25.00
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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...
Also available as an
eBook.
Selected Poems
eBook | 288 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American; Literary Collections - American
978-0-307-59897-4 (0-307-59897-7)
March 22, 2011 | $17.99
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...
eBook | 288 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American; Literary Collections - American
978-0-307-59897-4 (0-307-59897-7)
March 22, 2011 | $17.99
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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...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Collected Later Poems
eBook | 256 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-307-55520-5 (0-307-55520-8)
March 4, 2009 | $18.99
Anthony Hecht, now in his eightieth year, has earned a place alongside such poets as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth Bishop. Here under one cover are his three most recent collections–The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, and The Darkness and the Light. The perfect companion to his Collected...
Written by Anthony Hecht
eBook | 256 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-307-55520-5 (0-307-55520-8)
March 4, 2009 | $18.99
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Anthony Hecht, now in his eightieth year, has earned a place alongside such poets as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth Bishop. Here under one cover are his three most recent collections–The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, and The Darkness and the Light. The perfect companion to his Collected...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Flight Among the Tombs
eBook | 88 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-307-55620-2 (0-307-55620-4)
February 25, 2009 | $19.99
Divided into two parts, this new book contains a collaboration with the artist Leonard Baskin called "Presumptions of Death, " reproducing 22 masterly wood engravings and all of Hecht's other poems written since his last book, The Transparent Man.
From the Hardcover edition.
Written by Anthony Hecht
eBook | 88 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-307-55620-2 (0-307-55620-4)
February 25, 2009 | $19.99
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Divided into two parts, this new book contains a collaboration with the artist Leonard Baskin called "Presumptions of Death, " reproducing 22 masterly wood engravings and all of Hecht's other poems written since his last book, The Transparent Man.
From the Hardcover edition.
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Collected Later Poems
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-375-71030-8 (0-375-71030-2)
April 12, 2005 | $23.95
Anthony Hecht, now in his eightieth year, has earned a place alongside such poets as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth Bishop. Here under one cover are his three most recent collections–The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, and The Darkness and the Light. The perfect companion to his Collected...
Written by Anthony Hecht
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-375-71030-8 (0-375-71030-2)
April 12, 2005 | $23.95
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Anthony Hecht, now in his eightieth year, has earned a place alongside such poets as W. H. Auden, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth Bishop. Here under one cover are his three most recent collections–The Transparent Man, Flight Among the Tombs, and The Darkness and the Light. The perfect companion to his Collected...
Also available as an
eBook.
Flight Among the Tombs
Trade Paperback | 88 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-679-76592-9 (0-679-76592-1)
January 12, 1998 | $25.00
Divided into two parts, this new book contains a collaboration with the artist Leonard Baskin called "Presumptions of Death, " reproducing 22 masterly wood engravings and all of Hecht's other poems written since his last book, The Transparent Man.
Written by Anthony Hecht
Trade Paperback | 88 pages | Knopf | Poetry - Single Author - American
978-0-679-76592-9 (0-679-76592-1)
January 12, 1998 | $25.00
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Divided into two parts, this new book contains a collaboration with the artist Leonard Baskin called "Presumptions of Death, " reproducing 22 masterly wood engravings and all of Hecht's other poems written since his last book, The Transparent Man.
Also available as an
eBook.
Collected Earlier Poems
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-679-73357-7 (0-679-73357-4)
February 25, 1992 | $26.95
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...
Written by Anthony Hecht
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Knopf | Poetry
978-0-679-73357-7 (0-679-73357-4)
February 25, 1992 | $26.95
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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...
Also available as an
eBook.
