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JUDITH HALL ON ANTHONY HECHT’S “GREEN, AN EPISTLE”
Anthony Hecht has said of this poem in blank verse paragraphs that it is “about ‘growing up’”; “about the disguises of Pride”; “about the infections of the ego”; “about . . . delusions”; “consuming…
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Poets on Thanksgiving: A Roundup [by Stacey Harwood-Lehman]
Thanksgiving Later, after dinner, we examine your uncle’s photos of trees, flowers, waterfalls, birds until I just can’t stand it another second. I am not at one with nature. Never was. Some of the…
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So You Think You’re Financially Literate: A Quiz [by David Lehman]
Have we taught a generation of college graduates to vilify capitalism without doing it the honor of knowing how it works? Spot checks at New York’s Penn Station reveal that a vast majority of…
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On Anthony Hecht’s “A Birthday Poem” [by V. Penelope Pelizzon]
Hans Holbein the Younger: 'The Ambassadors' (The National Gallery, UK.) “Extravagance is a legitimate feature of poetry,” Anthony Hecht remarked in an interview, and it’s extravagance that thrills me in “A Birthday Poem.”[1] No…
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Hitchcock Quiz # 1 – 5 [by David Lehman]
(1) Which of the following did not play the male lead in a Hitchcock movie? a) Sean Connery in Marnieb) Cary Grant in Notoriousc) Orson Welles in A Touch of Evild) Laurence Olivier in…
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Stephen Edgar on “Ghostly Stencil: `A Brief Account of Our City’ ” by Anthony Hecht
Anthony Hecht was obviously fond of the dramatic monologue; there are examples of it in books throughout his career: “Consider the Lilies”, “Green: an Epistle”, “The Venetian Vespers”, “See Naples and Die”, and “Death…
