Melodies Unheard : Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry / / Anthony Hecht.

• Author: Hecht, Anthony, 1923-2004.
• Langue: English
• Collection: Johns Hopkins, poetry and fiction.
• Description matérielle: 1 online resource (1 online resource (304 pages))
• Notes: Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License; Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 2003

The fruit of a lifetime's reading and thinking about literature, its delights and its responsibilities, this book by acclaimed poet and critic Anthony Hecht explores the mysteries of poetry, offering profound insight into poetic form, meter, rhyme, and meaning. Ranging from Renaissance to conte...