Photo: © Michael
J. Germana
Anthony Hecht was born in New York City in 1923. His most recent
books of poetry are The Transparent Man (Knopf, 1990) and
Collected Earlier Poems (Knopf, 1990). He is also the author
of two volumes of criticism, Obbligati: Essays in Criticism
(1986) and The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W.H. Auden(1993).
He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Hard Hours (1967),
the Bollingen Prize, the Prix de Rome, and the Eugenio Montale
Award. He has served as Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress,
and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His
recent publications include Flight Among the Tombs: Poems (1996) a collection of poems with illustrations by Leonard Baskin
and On The Laws Of The Poetic Art: The Andrew Mellon Lectures
In The Fine Arts (1995).
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