Anthony Hecht

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Anthony Hecht


Died
October 20, 2004

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Average rating: 4.11 · 1,423 ratings · 138 reviews · 76 distinct worksSimilar authors
Collected Earlier Poems of ...

4.33 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1990 — 10 editions
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The Hard Hours

3.85 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1967 — 15 editions
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The Darkness and the Light:...

3.76 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions
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Selected Poems of Anthony H...

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4.12 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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Flight Among the Tombs: Poems

4.06 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions
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Collected Later Poems

4.55 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2003 — 4 editions
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The Venetian Vespers

4.15 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1979 — 8 editions
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The Transparent Man: poems

3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions
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Melodies Unheard: Essays on...

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Collected Poems of Anthony ...

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“Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.”
Anthony Hecht

“Doctors of Science, what is man that he
Should hope to come to a good end?
The best is not to have been born.”
Anthony Hecht
tags: life

“I had the gift, and arrived at the technique
That called up spirits from the vasty deep...”
Anthony Hecht, The Darkness and the Light: Poems

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