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	Anthony Hecht - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hecht's parents were not happy at his plans and tried to discourage them; even getting family friend Ted Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, to attempt to dissuade him.
		Hecht's main source of income was as a teacher of poetry, most notably at the University of Rochester where he taught from 1967 to 1985.
		Hecht is also notably one of the inventors of the double dactyl, a form of light verse.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anthony_Hecht (633 words)

	Anthony Hecht -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Anthony Ivan Hecht, (January 16 1923-October 20 2004), was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)) poet.
		Hecht was born in (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City to (A person of German nationality) German- (Click link for more info and facts about Jewish) Jewish parents.
		Hecht's main source of income was as a teacher of poetry, most notably at the (Click link for more info and facts about University of Rochester) University of Rochester where he taught from 1967 to 1985.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/an/anthony_hecht.htm (572 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Anthony Hecht
		Anthony Hecht, the poet who has died aged 81, created much of his most enjoyable work by updating the classics, for example reworking Horace's odes as though the Latin author were a mooching Manhattanite.
		Anthony Hecht was born on January 16 1923 in New York City, the son of a Jewish banker.
		Hecht, not wanting to seem a coward, but believing that a reluctance to fight was actually a proof of sanity, demonstrated just enough dislike of the army to stay in it.
	www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/25/db2502.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2004/10/25/ixopright.html (877 words)

	Poet, Essayist Anthony Hecht Dies at 81 (washingtonpost.com)
		Hecht, who was 81, had won the Pulitzer Prize and many other awards when he moved to Washington in 1982 as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress -- one of the nation's highest honors for a poet.
		"Anthony Hecht is indisputably one of the greatest poets of his age," said Dana Gioia, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts and a respected poet.
		Hecht's poems contained allusions to Greek tragedy and myth, the English metaphysical poets of the 17th century, Shakespeare, 19th-century French symbolists and such 20th-century predecessors as T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens and one of his close friends, Elizabeth Bishop.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A53133-2004Oct21.html (844 words)

	Anthony Hecht; formalist poet; 81 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Anthony Hecht, an accomplished formalist poet whose early work of courtliness and urbanity gave way to searing chronicles of the 20th century's terrors, died Oct. 20 at his home in Washington.
		Anthony Evan Hecht was born in New York Jan. 16, 1923, to a businessman and a homemaker.
		Hecht had another professional life, as a professor, teaching at institutions such as Smith, Bard, Harvard, Georgetown and Yale, though most of his career was at the University of Rochester.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041101/news_1m1hecht.html (716 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| Anthony Hecht
		Hecht's work combined a passionate interest in form with an unflinching determination to confront the horrors of 20th-century history, in particular the second world war, in which he fought, and the Holocaust.
		Hecht defined his family as "upper-middle-class", but his father's reckless business ventures and the 1929 crash made him feel the family was always poised to plunge down the financial and social scale.
		Hecht earned his living as a teacher of poetry, principally at the University of Rochester, where he was John H Deane professor of poetry and rhetoric, but his career also included stints at Smith, Bard, Harvard, Georgetown and Yale.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,1335127,00.html (845 words)

	Don Hecht (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Anthony Hecht in Conversation with Philip Hoy Anthony Hecht discusses his life, work and critical influences.
		Anthony Hecht (1923-) Notes on Hecht's work from the Modern American Poetry series.
		Anthony Hecht The Academy of American Poets presents a biography, photograph, and selected poems.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Don_Hecht.html (188 words)

	Anthony Hecht at 80 (9.29.03) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hecht dreamed about the camp, waking up screaming." Because of Hecht's ability to speak some German and French, he was assigned to translate the survivors' accounts of the atrocities that took place in the camp.
		Hecht wrote about the Holocaust and WWII in poems that include "The Book of Yolek," a sestina haunted by the ghost of a young boy, which focuses on the fate of a group of Warsaw Ghetto orphans; and "Sacrifice," a poem that replays the Abraham and Isaac story in a French village in 1945.
		Hecht is a formalist who usually writes in rhyme and meter, but many poets feel that this categorization does not do justice to the vernacular ease and musicality of his language.
	www.92y.org /content/anthony_hecht_at_80.asp (1489 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Anthony Hecht, at 81; won Pulitizer for poetry
		Hecht was a formal poet who wrote about war, corruption, and ''taking on society in the largest sense" with other serious issues but could also write humorous, witty, and playful pieces demonstrating his ''wonderful dark humor."
		Hecht continued to write poetry until the end, noting that he had a piece in The New Yorker magazine a few weeks ago.
		Hecht leaves two sons from his first marriage, Jason of Northampton, Mass., and Adam of North Bend, Ore.; a son from his second marriage, Evan of New York; and two grandchildren.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2004/10/22/anthony_hecht_at_81_won_pulitizer_for_poetry (286 words)

	NEA News Room: 2004 National Medal of Arts - ANTHONY HECHT
		A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Anthony Hecht is internationally recognized as one of America’s most important poets of the past half century.
		Hecht is the author of many critical books, including Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (2003), On the Laws of Poetic Art: The Andrew Mellon Lectures (1995), Obbligati: Essays in Criticism (1986), and The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W.H. Auden (1993).
		Through his poems, scholarship, and teaching, Anthony Hecht has come to be recognized as the moral voice of his poetic generation and his works continue to have a profound impact on contemporary American poetry.
	arts.endow.gov /news/news04/medals/Hecht.html (418 words)

	Anthony Hecht
		A sketch of Anthony Hecht's life and career - his youth, wartime experience, and student days at Kenyon College, and some of the honours awarded in the last 50 years, including the Pulitzer and Bollingen Prizes.
		Anthony Hecht was born in New York City in 1923, the first son of Melvyn Hahlo Hecht and Dorothea Hecht (née Holzman).
		Hecht was educated at three of New York City's schools, and then, in 1940, enrolled as an undergraduate at Bard College, an experimental adjunct of Columbia University, situated at Annandale-on-Hudson.
	interviews-with-poets.com /anthony-hecht/hecht-note.html (561 words)

	Reviews
		Anthony Hecht's resistance to modernity is a proof of his enduring quality and genius.
		So, Anthony Hecht may well claim, "I see poetic gifts of a very high order passed by and neglected while other poets no more than unclothed emperors, are widely honored for their fine tailoring and natty style,” his self-serving critical agenda turns out to be a self-defeating agenda.
		What is further indefensible is that when Anthony Hecht laments the prevailing contemporary oblivion of meter and rhyme, he exposes values which have little to do with the transmission of the culture which he claims is lost for ever.
	www.cercles.com /review/r20/hecht.htm (3999 words)

	The morality of Anthony Hecht by David Yezzi
		Hecht, of course, is still very much with us and adding to his complete works, but, regardless of any poems that follow, these two volumes constitute one of the great achievements in poetry of the last hundred years.
		As Hecht suggests elsewhere in his poems, the legacy of Christianity (which Saul becomes instrumental in propagating) and of all dogmatic religions for that matter, is not the story of God revealed to man so much as a chain of human atrocity and persecution in God’s name.
		Hecht has positioned the word, which follows the pattern of repetition prescribed by the form, such that it occurs in consecutive lines directly in the center of the poem: “In close formation off to a special camp.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/22/apr04/hecht.htm (3482 words)

	Encyclopedia: Anthony Hecht
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		Jump to: navigation, search Located in Rochester, New York, USA and founded in 1850, the University of Rochester is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian research institution.
		The Bollingen Prize, awarded every two years by the Bollingen Foundation, is a prestigious literary honor bestowed on a poet in recognition of the best book of new verse within the last two years, or for lifetime achievement.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Anthony-Hecht (2155 words)

	Powell's Books - The Darkness & the Light by Anthony Hecht (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hecht’s verse — by turns lyric and narrative, formal and free — is grounded in the compassion that comes from a deep understanding of every kind of human depredation, yet is tempered by flashes of wry comedy, and still more by innocent pleasure in the gifts of the natural world.
		We see ourselves in fresh light as Hecht illuminates the simililarites between our own age and the biblical world, and finds postmodern sadness in stories like that of Miriam, who announces in her poem, "I had a nice voice once, and a large following./I was, you might say, a star".
		Anthony Hecht is the author of seven books of poetry, among them The Hard Hours, which received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1968, and, more recently, Flight Among the Tombs.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0375411941-6 (580 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Catalog
		Anthony Hecht is the author of seven books of poetry, including The Hard Hours, which received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1968.
		Anthony Hecht, now in his eightieth year, has earned a place alongside such poets as W. Auden, Robert Frost, and Elizabeth Bishop.
		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.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/catalog/results2.pperl?authorid=12449 (275 words)

	Anthony Hecht Obituary
		Anthony Evan Hecht was born in New York City in 1923, the son of a banker.
		Once he suggested that the sonnet form might owe its persistence to the Vitruvian ideal of architectural proportion, noting that the relationship between the length and width of Palladio’s Villa Foscari is 8:6, the same as that between the octet and the sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet.
		Anthony Hecht, poet, was born on January 16, 1923.
	www.breakoutofthebox.com /AnthonyHecht.htm (1109 words)

	Alibris: Anthony Hecht
		Hecht is the winner of the 1997 Tanning Prize from the Academy of American Poets.
		In this study - the fruit of a lifelong critical and imaginative engagement with W H. Auden's works - Anthony Hecht identifies and traces consistent habits of thought and belief within the poet's extensive and varied writings and through his celebrated conversions and repudiations, literary and otherwise.
		Anthony Hecht's latest collection of poetry, now in paperback, offers a piquant sense of life lived and catalogued by a mature sensibility.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Anthony_Hecht (660 words)

	Poetry: Anthony Hecht (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hecht has taught at several universities, including the University of Rochester, where he was professor of poetry and rhetoric in 1967.
		Hecht is also the author of a collection of critical essays, Obbligati (1986).
		Acclaimed for his technical expertise, Hecht was first devoted to traditional poetic forms, and his work was sometimes described as "baroque" and "courtly." More recently, his work has become less decorative.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/hecht.htm (309 words)

	languagehat.com: ANTHONY HECHT.
		One of my favorite modern poets is Anthony Hecht, an unprolific formalist with a bleak outlook on life whose verse goes down like good strong fl coffee.
		He had a smattering of German and French and was assigned to translate the prisoners' accounts of the atrocities and the responses of their German guards, who had been captured.
		Hecht sits is an expression of the man and the work — serene, with fluted pilasters and a frieze around the ceiling with lines from his "Death the Poet," written in gold leaf:
	www.languagehat.com /archives/000371.php (455 words)

	Bryn Mawr Now: Anthony Hecht to Read at BMC
		Anthony Hecht, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, will read from his work on Monday, March 29, at 7:30 p.m., in Thomas Great Hall.
		Hecht’s reading, the sixth event in the Creative Writing Program’s 2003-04 Reading Series, is sponsored by the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry and the Whitehill-Linn Fund.
		As a young man, Hecht was attending Bard College when he left to serve in the army in Europe and Japan during World War II, which he says had a profound influence on his work.
	www.brynmawr.edu /news/2004-03-18/hecht.shtml (260 words)

	Anthony Hecht, Collected Later Poems
		Anthony Hecht was the author of seven books of poetry, among them The Hard Hours, which received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1968, and, more recently, The Darkness and the Light (also available from Waywiser).
		"Hecht is often ranked among such luminaries as W. Auden and James Merrill, an assessment based on his adroitness with form, classical frame of reference, and suppleness of thought and imagination.
		Hecht's grim reaper takes many shapes: an inquisitor, a whore, an archbishop, a painter, an Oxford don, a Mexican revolutionary, a film director, and a carnival barker.
	www.waywiser-press.com /hecht2.html (1425 words)

	About Anthony Hecht
		The work of Anthony Hecht shatters the cosy notion that a fragmented, fractured age should be reflected in the forms of its art, that ugliness and shapelessness demand payment in kind.
		Like Auden, he has absorbed the evils and grotesqueries of his unhappy century into a verse both highly formal and all-encompassing, stitching wounds with iambs, sculpting pentameters of sustained, Latinate beauty, sounding a healing music.
		The Horatian range and dexterity of Hecht's lines also allow some happy ventures into comedy ('The Ghost in the Martini') and current affairs ('Black Boy in the Dark'), always anchored on the twin foundations of the poet's historical awareness and his generous, embracing intelligence.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/g_l/hecht/life.htm (453 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Anthony Hecht
		Anthony Hecht interview about his life and work with Philip Hoy
		Anthony Hecht's first book of poems, A Summoning of Stones, appeared in 1954.
		Hecht’s verse—by turns lyric and narrative, formal and free—is grounded in the compassion that comes from a deep understanding of every kind of human depredation, yet is tempered by flashes of wry comedy, and still more by innocent pleasure in the gifts of the natural world.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/hecht/index.html (393 words)

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