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Born in January 16, 1923 / Died in October 20, 2004 / United States / English

Furtherreading

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BOOKS

  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 8, 1978, Volume 13, 1980, Volume 19, 1981.
  • Contemporary Poets, St. James Press (Detroit, MI), 1996.
  • Hecht, Anthony, and Philip Hoy, Anthony Hecht: In Conversation with Philip Hoy, Between the Lines (London, England), 1999.
  • Lea, Sydney, editor, The Burdens of Formality: Essays on the Poetry of Anthony Hecht, University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA), 1989.
PERIODICALS
  • AB Bookman's Weekly, November 28, 1994, p. 2287.
  • Agenda, winter, 1994, p. 224.
  • Atlantic, February, 1967; April, 1993, Peter Davison, review of The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W. H. Auden, p. 128.
  • Bloomsbury Review, May, 1994, review of The Hidden Law, p. 10.
  • Book, July, 2001, Stephen Whited, review of The Darkness and the Light, p. 79.
  • Booklist, July, 1986, review of Obbligati: Essays in Criticism, p. 1578; May 15, 1990, review of The Transparent Man, p. 1773; November 15, 1996, Donna Seaman, review of Flight among the Tombs, p. 567; May 1, 2001, Ray Olson, review of The Darkness and the Light, p. 1658.
  • Book World, August 31, 1986, review of Obbligati, p. 9; July 8, 1990, reviews of The Transparent Man and Collected Earlier Poems, p. 1; April 3, 1994, review of The Hidden Law, p. 12; February 25, 1996, review of On the Laws of the Poetic Art, p. 4; January 26, 1997, review of Flight among the Tombs: Poems, p. 8; December 7, 1997, review of Flight among the Tombs, p. 13.
  • Boston Review, August, 1987, review of Obbligati, p. 18.
  • Carleton Miscellany, Volume IX, number 3, 1968.
  • Choice, July, 1993, review of The Hidden Law, p. 1767; March, 1987, review of Obbligati, p. 1058.
  • Christian Science Monitor, February 1, 1968; September 10, 1986, review of Obbligati, p. 23.
  • Commonweal, December 7, 1990, Margaret Wimsatt, review of The Transparent Man, p. 731; December 17, 1993, Daria Donnelly, review of The Hidden Law, p. 18.
  • Comparative Literature Studies, review of On the Laws of the Poetic Art, p. 191.
  • Contemporary Literature, spring, 1969.
  • Economist, June 23, 2001, Seamus Heaney, review of The Darkness and the Light, p. 3.
  • English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, February, 1994, review of The Hidden Law, p. 231.
  • Explicator, 54, 1996, Ellen Miller Casey, "Hecht's 'More Light! More Light!,'" pp. 113-115; fall, 1999, Will Clemens, "Hecht's 'Death as a Member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke,'" p. 46, and Kathryn Jacobs, "Hecht's 'The Ghost in the Martini,'" p. 48.
  • Harper's, August, 1968.
  • Hudson Review, summer, 1997, review of Flight among the Tombs, p. 319.
  • Journal of English and Germanic Philology, April, 1994, review of The Hidden Law, p. 265.
  • Kirkus Reviews, June 1, 1986, review of Obbligati, p. 842; April 15, 1995, review of On the Laws of the Poetic Art, p. 532.
  • Lambda Book Report, May, 1994, review of The Hidden Law, p. 39.
  • Library Journal, August, 1986, review of Obbligati, p. 151; June 15, 1990, Fred Muratori, review of The Transparent Man, p. 115; February 1, 1993, Henry L. Carrigan, Jr., review of The Hidden Law, p. 82; June 1, 1995, David Kirby, review of On the Laws of the Poetic Art, p. 114; October 1, 1996, Graham Christian, review of Flight among the Tombs, p. 82; April 1, 1997, review of Collected Earlier Poems, p. 95; June 15, 2001, Tim Gavin, review of The Darkness and the Light, p. 77.
  • Listener, October 19, 1967.
  • London Magazine, Volume VII, number 12, 1968.
  • Nation, September 3, 1977.
  • National Review, August 15, 1986, review of Obbligati, p. 44.
  • New Criterion, June, 2001, William Logan, review of The Darkness and the Light, p. 68.
  • New Leader, October 1, 1990, Phoebe Pettingell, reviews of The Transparent Man and Collected Earlier Poems, p. 19.
  • New Republic, December 15, 1986, William H. Pritchard, review of Obbligati, p. 37.
  • New Statesman and Society, December 5, 1997, review of Flight among the Tombs, p. 59.
  • New Yorker, February 25, 1967; December 8, 1986, review of Obbligati, p. 154.
  • New York Review of Books, February 13, 1986, reviews of Millions of Strange Shadows, The Venetian Vespers, and The Hard Hours, p. 11; August 1, 1968; August 17, 1978; February 13, 1986, Brad Leithauser, "Poet for a Dark Age," p. 11; March 3, 1988, p. 11; December 21, 1989, p. 56; May 9, 1996, Helen Vendler, review of On the Laws of the Poetic Art, p. 39; March 27, 1997, John Bayley, review of Flight among the Tombs, p. 18.
  • New York Times, September 12, 1986, review of Obbligati, p. 23.
  • New York Times Book Review, January 29, 1984, John Gross, review of Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls, p. 8; September 7, 1986, p. 19; July 22, 1990, William Logan, review of The Transparent Man and Collected Poems, p. 26; July 19, 1992, reviews of The Transparent Man and Collected Earlier Poems, p. 32; August 15, 1993, Emily Eakin, review of The Hidden Law, p. 18.
  • Observer, November 12, 1967.
  • Parnassus, Number 2, 1988, review of Obbligati, p. 189; January, 1998, review of Flight among the Tombs, p. 287.
  • Partisan Review, number 3, 1987, review of Obbligati, p. 289.
  • Perspective, spring, 1962.
  • Poetry, September, 1968; October, 1990, Alfred Corn, review of The Transparent Man, p. 34; June, 1997, John Taylor, review of Flight among the Tombs, p. 172.
  • Publishers Weekly, June 13, 1986, review of Obbligati, p. 64; January 13, 1992, review of The Transparent Man, p. 54; May 14, 2001, review of The Darkness and the Light, p. 76.
  • Queen's Quarterly, spring, 1991, reviews of The Transparent Man and Collected Earlier Poems, p. 250.
  • Reporter, February 22, 1968.
  • Review of English Studies, May, 1997, review of On the Laws of the Poetic Art, p. 287.
  • Sewanee Review, July, 1994, review of The Hidden Law, p. 476; January, 1996, p. 158.
  • Shenandoah, spring, 1968.
  • South Carolina Review, spring, 1996, review of The Hidden Law, p. 286.
  • Southern Review, winter, 1991, Henry Taylor, review of The Transparent Man and Collected Earlier Poems, p. 235; spring, 1994, Sidney Burris, review of The Hidden Law, p. 364.
  • Spectator, November 16, 1991, reviews of The Transparent Man and Collected Earlier Poems, p. 54.
  • Times Literary Supplement, November 23, 1967; May 6, 1977; May 30, 1980; July 26, 1991, reviews of The Transparent Man and Collected Earlier Poems, p. 4; April 9, 1993, review of The Hidden Law, p. 10; March 8, 1996, review of On the Laws of the Poetic Art, p. 28; August 22, 1997, review of Flight among the Tombs, p. 24; December 5, 1997, review of Flight among the Tombs, p. 13; October 27, 2000, Patrick Crotty, review of In Conversation with Philip Hoy, p. 27.
  • Virginia Quarterly Review, summer, 1993, review of The Hidden Law, p. 102; autumn, 1994, review of The Hidden Law, p. 122; winter, 1996, review of On the Laws of Poetic Art, p. 14.
  • Wall Street Journal, July 31, 1990, review of Collected Earlier Poems, p. A11.
  • Washington Post, January 26, 1997, Dana Gioia, "'Poetry': Anthony Hecht, Kim Addonizio, Donald Hall, Hayden Carruth, Robert Hass," p. X8; November 6, 1997, David Streitfeld, "Washington Poet Wins Rich Prize; Anthony Hecht Cited as 'Moral Conscience,'" p. C1.
  • Washington Post Book World, December 30, 1970; July 7, 1990, p. 1; February 25, 1996, p. 4.
  • World Literature Today, spring, 1987, review of Obbligati, p. 298; summer, 1997, Lee Oser, review of Flight among the Tombs, p. 594.
  • Yale Review, spring, 1969; winter, 1989, p. 202; April, 1993, p. 76; April, 1997, Stephen Yenser, review of Flight among the Tombs, p. 161.
OTHER
  • American Academy of Poets Web site, http://www.poets.org/ (August 1, 2001), "Anthony Hecht."
  • Modern American Poetry, http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets.htm (March 4, 2001), "Anthony Hecht."
OBITUARIES: ONLINE
  • New York Times Online, http://www.nytimes.com/ (October 22, 2004).
PERIODICALS
  • Chicago Tribune, October 22, 2004, section 3, p. 11.
  • Independent (London, England), October 25, 2004, p. 35.
  • Los Angeles Times, October 23, 2004, p. B18.
  • New York Times, October 22, 2004, p. A21.
  • Times (London, England), October 26, 2004, p. 59.
  • Washington Post, October 22, 2004, p. B7.