TY - BOOK AU - Hecht,Anthony ED - Project Muse. ED - Project Muse. TI - Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry T2 - Johns Hopkins, poetry & fiction SN - 9781421437385 AV - PS305 .H43 2003 KW - Lyrik KW - englische KW - idsbb KW - amerikanische KW - Literatur KW - gnd KW - Gedichten KW - gtt KW - English poetry KW - fast KW - American poetry KW - Po©esie anglaise KW - Histoire et critique KW - Po©esie am©ericaine KW - History and criticism KW - Englisch KW - swd KW - Aufsatzsammlung KW - USA KW - Electronic books KW - lcgft KW - Essays KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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; Includes bibliographical references; Shakespeare and the sonnet -- The sonnet: ruminations on form, sex, and history -- Sidney and the sestina -- On Henry Noel's "Gaze not on swans" -- Technique in Housman -- On Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland" -- Uncle Tom's shantih -- Paralipomena to The Hidden law -- On Robert Frost's "The Wood-pile" -- Two poems by Elizabeth Bishop -- Richard Wilbur: an introduction -- Yehuda Amichai -- Charles Simic -- Seamus Heaney's prose -- Moby-Dick -- St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians -- On rhyme -- The music of forms; Open Access N2 - 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 contemporary poets, Hecht considers the work of Shakespeare, Sidney, and Noel Housman, Hopkins, Eliot, and Auden Frost, Bishop, and Wilbur Amichai, Simic, and Heaney. Stepping back from individual poets, Hecht muses on rhyme and on meter, and also discusses St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians and Melville's Moby-Dick. Uniting these diverse subjects is Hecht's preoccupation with the careful deployment of words, the richness and versatility of language and of those who use it well UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/72310/ ER -