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Anthony Hecht
Anthony Hecht (1923 - 2004 / New York / United States)
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Hecht was born in New York City to German-Jewish parents. He was educated at various schools in the city - he was a classmate of Jack Kerouac at one p .. more >>
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1      A Hill
2      A Letter
3      Chorus From Oedipus At Colonos
4      Curriculum Vitae
5      Late Afternoon: The Onslaught Of Love
6      Lizards And Snakes
7      Lot's Wife
8      More Light! More Light!
9      Paradise Lost Book 5: An Epitome
10      Prospects
11      Samuel Sewall
12      Sarabande On Attaining The Age Of Seventy-Seven
13      Saul And David
14      The Dover Bitch
15      The Dover Bitch: A Criticism Of Life
16      The End Of The Weekend
17      The Transparent Man
18      Third Avenue In Sunlight
19      Witness
        
 

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  Anthony Hecht - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jan 21, 2009 ... Higgledy Piggledy: Anthony Hecht, who could: Write about death in words: Epic yet warm,: Went to his own with some: Counterintuitive: Logic; ...
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  Anthony Hecht - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
Anthony Hecht was born in New York City in 1923. His books of poetry include The Darkness and the Light (Alfred A. Knopf, 2001); Flight Among the Tombs ...
http://www.poets.org/ahech/


  Anthony Hecht
About Anthony Hecht | On "More Light! More Light!" | On "A Hill" | Excerpts from an Online Interview with Hecht | About The Holocaust | About World War II ...
http://www.english.illinois.edu/Maps/poets/g_l/hecht/hecht.htm


  Poet, Essayist Anthony Hecht Dies at 81 (washingtonpost.com)
Anthony Hecht, one of America's most distinguished poets of the past half- century, whose musically exquisite verse expressed dark observations about mankind ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53133-2004Oct21.html


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  ''It's all very well to dream of a dove that saves,
Picasso's or the Pope's
The one that annually coos in Our Lady's ear
Half the world's hopes,''
Anthony Hecht (b. 1923), U.S. poet. Birdwatchers of America (l. 1-4). . . New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxfo...
 
  ''The air was clear. He seemed in ultimate peace

Except that he had no eyes. Rigid and bright
Upon the forehead, furred
With a light frost, crouched an outrageous bird.''
Anthony Hecht (b. 1923), U.S. poet. Birdwatchers of America (l. 21-24). . . New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Ox...

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