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Anthony Hecht (1923–2004)

Author of Collected Earlier Poems

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Works by Anthony Hecht

Collected Earlier Poems 99 copies

Collected Later Poems 59 copies

Flight Among the Tombs: Poems 49 copies

The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W. H. Auden 47 copies

The Transparent Man 44 copies

Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (Johns Hopkins: Poetry… 44 copies

The Venetian Vespers: Poems 41 copies, 1 review

The Darkness and the Light: Poems 37 copies

The Hard Hours 35 copies

Millions of Strange Shadows 32 copies, 1 review

On the Laws of the Poetic Art 24 copies

Jiggery Pokery 20 copies, 4 reviews

Selected Poems 18 copies

Obbligati: Essays in Criticism 17 copies

The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht 12 copies

A Summoning of Stones 6 copies

Robert Lowell: A lecture delivered at the Library of Congress on May 2,… 5 copies

A love for four voices : homage to Franz Joseph Haydn 4 copies

The Seven Deadly Sins 3 copies

Jiggery-pokery : a compendium of double dactyls 2 copies

The Various Light (Signed Limited Edition) 2 copies

The Dover Bitch [poem] 2 copies

Le ore dure (Author) 1 copy

Aesopic : twenty four couplets by Anthony Hecht to accompany the Thomas… 1 copy

Summoning of Stones 1 copy

Robert Lowell: A lecture 1 copy

Obligati: Essays in Criticism 1 copy

Quando solcai i tuoi abissi cover di Odi I.V; I. XXV di Quinto Orazio… 1 copy

Seance for a minyan : ten poems 1 copy

Seance for a Minyan: Ten Poems 1 copy

Interior Skies: Late Poems from Liguria 1 copy

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Also by Anthony Hecht

Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (Contributor, some editions) 816 copies, 6 reviews

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor) 639 copies, 3 reviews

For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (Contributor) 412 copies, 3 reviews

A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (Contributor, some editions) 392 copies, 1 review

Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor, some editions) 342 copies, 1 review

180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Contributor) 310 copies, 9 reviews

Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (Contributor) 291 copies, 1 review

The Faber Book of Modern Verse (Contributor, some editions) 258 copies, 2 reviews

The Best American Poetry 2005 (Contributor) 158 copies

Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Contributor) 139 copies

Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work From Tennyson to… (Contributor) 128 copies, 1 review

American Religious Poems: An Anthology (Contributor) 125 copies

Poets of World War II (Contributor) 117 copies, 2 reviews

American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (Contributor) 114 copies, 3 reviews

Emergency Kit (Contributor, some editions) 99 copies, 1 review

The Art of the Lathe (Introduction) 95 copies

The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous… (Contributor) 90 copies

Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American… (Contributor) 82 copies, 1 review

The State of the Language [1990] (Contributor) 80 copies, 1 review

American Sonnets: An Anthology (Contributor) 56 copies

Half/Life: Jew-ish Tales from Interfaith Homes (Contributor) 50 copies, 1 review

Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems (Contributor) 8 copies, 2 reviews

A Roman Collection: Stories, Poems, and Other Good Pieces (Contributor) 6 copies

Poem Upon the Lisbon Disaster (Translator) 3 copies

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Bard College Cemetery, Annandale-on-Hudon, New York, USA

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New York, New York, USA

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Washington, D.C., USA

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Columbia University

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Horace Mann School

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Kerouac, Jack (classmate)

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American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1970)

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Bollingen Prize (1983)

Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1988)

Frost Medal (2000)

National Medal of Arts (2004)

Wallace Stevens Award (1997)

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Modern American Poetry page

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