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Two important American poets died recently, a major loss to our poetry.(The Week)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
* Two important American poets died recently, a major loss to our poetry. They were alike in important ways, radically dissimilar in others. Viewed historically, they learned from but also quietly rebelled against the aesthetic extremes of the great modernists, Eliot, Yeats, and Pound, and sought power through concentration on traditional form, precision of language, and metrical virtuosity. Anthony Hecht was by far the darker of the two. As an infantryman during the war, he had been present at the opening of Flossenberg death camp, and the Holocaust became a metaphor for universal evil. His verse sometimes employs echoes of ...
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