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

Anthony Hecht

Published by Harvard University Press 1993

The Hidden Law

The Poetry of W. H. Auden

Anthony Hecht

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674865921

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A work of the most keen-sighted love for the most keen-sighted poet of our century.

The Hidden Law's dispassionate critical voice unfolds a powerful meditation on the vicissitudes of the poetic life...It is at its most significant level a narrative of Anthony Hecht's emergence as a poet, and for all that the book tells us by implication, it takes its place alongside MacNeice's Yeats and Berryman's Crane.

I know of no other instance of a poet of comparable mastery of his art and his experience taking up in such loving detail the work of a predecessor (and near contemporary).

This is a book about poetry, about a poet who was dedicated to the art like few others of our time, whose poetic technique only another poet as gifted as Hecht could gloss...The richness of reference in this book to history, prosody, theology, poetry, punctuation, makes for a long swim in the heady liquor of poetry--not only Auden's poetry but that of the hundreds of authors whom Auden read...It is a pleasure to read.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	viii
I. Everything That Counts Is Well Veiled: Poems Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II. The Curative Power of Love: On This Island Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
III. Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Another Time Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
IV. A Sort of Practical Holiday: Letter to Lord Byron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
V. A Civitas of Sound: New Year Letter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
VI. God Will Cheat No One: For the Time Being Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
VII. Amor Loci: Nones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
VIII. In Solitude, for Company: The Shield of Achilles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	372
IX. The Hidden Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	438
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
Index of Auden’s Works Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	473

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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 484
Keywords: Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674865921

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1993
ISBN: 9780674865914