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Flight Among the Tombs: Poems
by Hecht, Anthony
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- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679765921
- ISBN 13
- 9780679765929
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Archer, Florida, United States
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Synopsis
Anthony Hecht's first book of poems, A Summoning of Stones, appeared in 1954. It was followed by The Hard Hours , which received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1968. Millions of Strange Shadows was published in 1977, and The Venetian Vespers in 1979. The last three titles, together with the author's selection from the first book was published in 1990 as Collected Earlier Poems , together with a new book, The Transparent Man. He is the author also of a book of critical essays, , 1986; The Hidden Law , 1993, his study of the poetry of W.H. Auden; and On the Laws of the Poetic Art , 1995, the Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, delivered at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1992. He has taught widely, most recently as University Professor in the Graduate School of Georgetown University, from which he has recently retired. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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- Bibliologue
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001063
- Title
- Flight Among the Tombs: Poems
- Author
- Hecht, Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679765921
- ISBN 13
- 9780679765929
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- 0679765921, POETRY, POETIC, WORKS, AUTHOR
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