ISBN : 9780198828280
A Thickness of Particulars: The Poetry of Anthony Hecht is the first book-length study of one of the great formal poets of the later twentieth century (1923-2004). Making use of Hecht's correspondence, which the author edited, it situates Hecht's writings in the context of pre- and post-World-War II verse, including poetry written by W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, and Richard Wilbur.
Preface
1 The Book of Yolek the Sestina, and the Tattoo
2 Circa 1950: Eclectic Hecht among the Nightingales
3 About Suffering: History, Domesticity, and the Making of The Hard Hours
4 Stretching Out, Looking Within: In Medias Res, with James Merrill
5 The Venetian Vespers: Full of the splendor of the insubstantial
6 A shutter angles out: Hecht's Ekphrastic Verse
7 Shechtspeare
8 Later Flourishings: The Transparent Man and Flight Among the Tombs
9 The Darkness and the Light and the Art of Reticence
Index