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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…
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DL on FS at Cooper Union December 3rd: in the Great Hall of Cooper Union
Correction: The talk will be given at the Great Hall of Cooper Union at 6:30 PM on Thursday, 3 December. Previous announcements gave a different venue. In concert with the Count Basie Orchestra…
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A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht [by Jonathan F. S. Post]
In a recent Best American Poetry blog, “On Meditation,” by Victoria Kelly (October 5, 2015), I found myself touched by her reference to Richard Wilbur’s “beautiful, slim volume,” The Beautiful Changes, published in 1947.…
