TY - BOOK AU - Hecht,Anthony ED - Project Muse. TI - Melodies Unheard : : Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry / T2 - Johns Hopkins, poetry & fiction SN - 9781421437385 PY - 2019/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Lyrik KW - amerikanische KW - idsbb KW - englische KW - Gedichten KW - gtt KW - gnd KW - Literatur KW - American poetry KW - fast KW - English poetry KW - Poesie americaine KW - Histoire et critique KW - Poesie anglaise KW - History and criticism KW - Englisch KW - swd KW - Essais KW - rvmgf KW - Essays KW - lcgft KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - essays KW - aat KW - Essay KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 2003; The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International License; Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program; 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 -