Originally published in 2003.
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Ranging from Renaissance to contemporary poets, Hecht considers the work of Shakespeare, Sidney, and Noel
Housman, Hopkins, Eliot, and Auden
Frost, Bishop, and Wilbur
Amichai, Simic, and Heaney.
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.
Originally published in 2003