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Anthony Hecht (1923–2004)

Author of Collected Earlier Poems

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Works by Anthony Hecht

Collected Earlier Poems 92 copies

Collected Later Poems 59 copies

Flight Among the Tombs: Poems 48 copies

The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W. H. Auden 44 copies

The Transparent Man 43 copies

The Venetian Vespers: Poems 40 copies, 1 review

Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (Johns Hopkins: Poetry… 37 copies

The Darkness and the Light: Poems 36 copies

The Hard Hours 34 copies

Millions of Strange Shadows 28 copies, 1 review

On the Laws of the Poetic Art 23 copies

Jiggery Pokery 20 copies, 4 reviews

Selected Poems 17 copies

Obbligati: Essays in Criticism 17 copies

The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht 11 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

The Various Light (Signed Limited Edition) 2 copies

The Dover Bitch (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th… 2 copies

Jiggery-pokery : a compendium of double dactyls 2 copies

Robert Lowell: A lecture 1 copy

Hidden Law: Poetry of W. H. Auden 1 copy

Le ore dure (Author) 1 copy

Obligati: Essays in Criticism 1 copy

Seance for a Minyan: Ten Poems 1 copy

Seance for a minyan : ten poems 1 copy

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

Interior Skies: Late Poems from Liguria 1 copy

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Also by Anthony Hecht

The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor) 620 copies, 3 reviews

For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (Contributor) 407 copies, 3 reviews

A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (Contributor, some editions) 389 copies

Contemporary American Poetry (Contributor, some editions) 339 copies, 1 review

180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Contributor) 304 copies, 10 reviews

Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (Contributor) 281 copies, 1 review

The Best American Poetry 2005 (Contributor) 153 copies

Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (Contributor) 128 copies

American Religious Poems: An Anthology (Contributor) 125 copies

Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work From Tennyson to… (Contributor) 122 copies, 1 review

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

American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (Contributor) 115 copies, 2 reviews

The Art of the Lathe (Introduction) 92 copies

The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous… (Contributor) 86 copies

The State of the Language [1990] (Contributor) 78 copies, 1 review

Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American… (Contributor) 78 copies, 1 review

American Sonnets: An Anthology (Contributor) 54 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) 11 copies, 1 review

A Roman Collection: Stories, Poems, and Other Good Pieces (Contributor) 5 copies

Poem Upon the Lisbon Disaster Signed Limited Edition (Translator) 1 copy

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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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