Anthony Hecht
Anthony Hecht
Anthony Evan Hechtwas an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, and the Holocaust being recurrent themes in his work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 January 1923
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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Mandelstam's wife committed all his poems to memory in fear that both he and his poems would be destroyed by Stalin.
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I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking
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I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a keen eye, precision, and imagination of a high order.
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Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.