The Hard Hours

Name: The Hard Hours
Author: Anthony Hecht

by Anthony Hecht

Poems on suffering, loss, and the austere beauty of craft

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Anthony Hecht

American poet whose The Hard Hours won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968. His formalist verse addresses the Holocaust with unusual moral seriousness, and The Venetian Vespers is his masterpiece.

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A Summoning of StonesFormal poems on classical allusion and intricate rhetoric
Millions of Strange ShadowsBaroque poems exploring erudition, paradox, and mysterious shadows
The Venetian VespersLong narrative poems set in Venice and exploring human connection
Flight Among the TombsPoems on archaeology, mortality, and the ruins of civilization