Anthony Hecht
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More Light! January 22, 2024
Poets’ reputations often drop in critical stock and general popularity in the decade or two after their death. It takes an event—a biography, new scholarship, a collected or selected poems—to reverse the inertia. Since his death in 2004, Anthony Hech...
Ancient Pain November 08, 2023
Donald Fagen, the lead singer of Steely Dan, tells a story about the poet Anthony Hecht that does not appear in David Yezzi’s new biography. In 1966, “my formerly tweedy, graying poetry professor, Anthony Hecht,” returned for the fall semester at Bar...
