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Subseries 2.1a
Collected poems, 1954-2004
Boxes 81-88, OP2
Scope and Content Note
The section contains manuscript and typescript drafts of poems by Anthony Hecht which have been collected into published works (1954-2004). Materials relating to the completion of each published work accompany the poem drafts and may consist of drafts of title page, table of contents, correspondence, notes, complete typescripts of the work and proofs.
Arrangement Note
Arranged in chronological order by date of publication and individual poems within each work arranged alphabetically
A Summoning of Stones, 1954 | ||
Box | Folder | Content |
---|---|---|
81 | 1 | "A Deep Breath at Dawn" [variant title: "Aubade"] |
81 | 2 | "Divisions Upon A Ground," TS |
81 | 3 | "Double Sonnet," TS |
81 | 4 | "Harangue," TS |
81 | 5 | "An Imitation," TS |
81 | 6 | "Katharsis," TS |
81 | 7 | Related correspondence, 1953 |
The Hard Hours, 1967 | ||
81 | 8 | "Adam," photocopy, partial MS |
81 | 9 | '"And Can Ye Sing Baluloo When The Bairn Greets?"' TS and copy |
81 | 10 | "Behold the Lilies of the Field," TS, `copy |
81 | 11 | "Birdwatchers of America," TS 1-2, copy |
81 | 12 | "Clair de Lune," copy |
81 | 13 | "Clotho, or The Future," [From "Three Prompters from the Wings: Athopes: or, The Future"], MS, TS |
81 | 14 | Contents, TS, copy |
81 | 15 | Contract and related materials |
81 | 16 | "The Dover Bitch," TS 1-2, copy |
81 | 17 | Draft 1, TS |
81 | 18 | Draft 2, TS |
81 | 19 | "The End of the Weekend," MS 1, 2, TS 1-4, copy |
81 | 20 | "Giant Tortoise," TS, copy |
81 | 21 | "Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un bon voyage," TS 1-3 |
81 | 22 | "A Hill," TS, copy |
81 | 23 | "Improvisations on Aesop," TS |
81 | 24 | '"It out-Herods Herod. Pray you, avoid it."' TS, copy [variant title: "Dirty Work"] |
81 | 25 | "Jason," TS, copy |
81 | 26 | "La Condition Botanique," TS 1-2 |
"Lachesis or, The Present," TS [see "Three Prompters from the Wings"] | ||
81 | 27 | "A Letter," TS and copies |
81 | 28 | List of poems with previous publication information, TS, copy |
81 | 29 | "Lizards and Snakes," copy |
81 | 30 | "The Man Who Married Magdalene," TS, copy |
81 | 31 | "Message from the City," TS, copy |
81 | 32 | "More Light, More Light!" TS 1, 2, copy |
81 | 33 | "The Origin of Centaurs," copy |
81 | 34 | "Ostica Antica," copy |
81 | 35 | "Pig," TS and copy |
81 | 36 | Proofs |
81 | 37 | Proofs, bound |
81 | 38 | "Rites and Ceremonies," TS |
81 | 39 | "Rites and Ceremonies: III The Dream," TS |
81 | 40 | "Rites and Ceremonies: IV Words for the Day of Atonement", TS, MS, notes |
81 | 41 | Second page proofs |
81 | 42 | "The Seven Deadly Sins," copy |
81 | 43 | "The Seven Deadly Sins," Leonard Baskin wood engravings and photocopies |
81 | 44 | "The Song of the Flea," TS, copy |
81 | 45 | "Tarantula, or The Dance of Death," TS, copy 1, 2 |
81 | 46 | "Third Avenue in Sunlight," MS, TS, copy |
81 | 47 | "The Thoughtful Roisterer Declines the Gambit," MS, TS 1, 2 |
81 | 48 | "Three Prompters from the Wings," copy and TS [see above: "Clotho, or The Future"] |
81 | 49 | Title page, dedication, acknowledgements, copy |
81 | 50 | "To A Madonna," TS 1-2 |
82 | 1 | "Upon the Death of George Santayana," TS, copy |
82 | 2 | "The Vow," copy |
Millions of Strange Shadows, 1977 | ||
82 | 3 | Acknowledgments, TS |
82 | 4 | "After the Rain," MS 1, 2, TS 1, 2, correspondence |
82 | 5 | "Apples for Paul Suttman," TS drafts |
82 | 6 | "Apprehensions," ("The Book of Knowledge"), MS, TS 1-5 |
82 | 7 | "Auguries of Innocence," TS, copy |
82 | 8 | "An Autumnal," MS, TS 1-3 |
82 | 9 | "A Birthday Poem," MS, TS 1-3, copies 1-2 |
82 | 10 | "Black Boy in the Dark," MS 1-5, TS |
82 | 11 | Bound, corrected proofs, copy 1 |
82 | 12 | Bound, corrected proofs, copy 2 |
82 | 13 | "Coming Home," MS, TS 1, 2 |
82 | 14 | Copy |
82 | 15 | "The Cost," MS and TS |
82 | 16 | "Dichtung Und Wahrheit," copy 1, 2 |
82 | 17 | "Exile," partial MS, TS |
82 | 18 | "The Feast of Stephen," MS 1-3, TS 1-3, copy |
82 | 19 | "Fifth Avenue Parade," TS |
82 | 20 | "The Ghost in the Martini," TS |
82 | 21 | "'Gladness of the Best,'" MS, TS 1-5 |
82 | 22 | "Going the Rounds: A Sort of Love Poem" ("To Tania: In Pride and Fear"), MS, TS 1-6, copy |
82 | 23 | "Goliardic Song," TS |
82 | 24 | "Green: An Epistle," MS, TS 1-5, copy, correspondence |
82 | 25 | "The Hunt," MS, TS 1-3, copy 1-2 |
82 | 26 | "A Lot of Night Music," MS, TS 1-3 |
82 | 27 | "The Lull" ("Meanwhile"), TS 1-3, correspondence, copy 1, 2 |
82 | 28 | "The Lull" ("Meanwhile"), MS drafts, TS drafts, notes |
82 | 29 | Notes, TS |
82 | 30 | "The Odds," proofs, TS 1-6, MS |
82 | 31 | "Peripeteia," MS, TS 1-4, copy |
82 | 32 | "Poem Uon the Lisbon Disaster," MS, TS 1-4 |
82 | 33 | "Praise for Kolonos," TS 1, 2 |
82 | 34 | Proofs |
82 | 35 | Related material including correspondence |
82 | 36 | "Retreat," TS |
82 | 37 | "Rome," TS |
82 | 38 | "Sestina d'Inverno," TS 1, 2, copy |
82 | 39 | Setting copy with related correspondence |
82 | 40 | "Somebody's Life," MS 1-3, TS 1-3 |
82 | 41 | "Swan Dive," TS 1-3 |
82 | 42 | Typescript with notes |
82 | 43 | "A Voice at a Séance," TS |
The Venetian Vespers, 1979 | ||
83 | 1 | "Application for a Grant," MS, TS 1-3, copy |
83 | 2 | "Auspices" ("Cold Pastoral"), MS, TS |
83 | 3 | "Cape Cod Lullaby," MS drafts, TS drafts |
83 | 4 | "A Cast of Light," MS 1, 2, TS 1-6 |
83 | 5 | Dedication, ("For Helen,") MS, TS 1, 2 |
83 | 6 | "The Deodand," MS 1, 2, TS 1, partial 2, partial 3 |
83 | 7 | Epigraphs, TS |
83 | 8 | "The Grapes," partial MS, partial TS |
83 | 9 | "House Sparrows," partial MS, TS 1-2 See also: Writings by Hecht, Poetry, Uncollected, "Coral Gables" |
83 | 10 | "Invective Against Denise, the Witch," MS 1-3, TS 1-5 |
83 | 11 | Master proof, corrected |
83 | 12 | "An Old Malediction," TS 1, 2, copy |
83 | 13 | "An Overview," MS, TS 1-3, copy |
83 | 14 | "Persistences," TS drafts, TS 1-2, copy |
83 | 15 | Related material |
83 | 16 | "The Short End," MS drafts, TS, partial TS, partial copy, copy with correspondence, notes |
83 | 17 | "Still Life," MS, TS 1-3, copy |
83 | 18 | Title page, TS |
83 | 19 | " The Venetian Vespers," partial TS |
83 | 20 | " The Venetian Vespers," TS |
83 | 21 | " The Venetian Vespers, MS notes and drafts with TS drafts |
83 | 22 | The Venetian Vespers, galleys |
83 | 23 | The Venetian Vespers, TS, setting copy |
Collected Earlier Poems, 1990 | ||
OP2 | 1 | Corrected galley proofs |
84 | 1 | Corrected page proofs |
84 | 2 | Related material |
The Transparent Man, 1990 | ||
84 | 3 | "Antapodosis" ("Quid Pro Quo," "Recyclings"), MS TS 1-10 |
84 | 4 | "Anthem," TS |
84 | 5 | "The Book of Yolek," MS, TS 1-6 |
84 | 6 | "A Bountiful Harvest," MS, TS, proof |
84 | 7 | Corrected proofs, copy 1 |
84 | 8 | Corrected proofs, copy 2 |
84 | 9 | "Crows in Winter," TS 1, 2 |
84 | 10 | "Curriculum Vitae," MS, TS |
84 | 11 | "Destinations," MS, TS 1-2 |
84 | 12 | "Devotions of a Painter," MS, TS 1-7 |
84 | 13 | "The Eclogue of the Shepherd and the Townie," MS, TS 1-10 |
84 | 14 | "Envoi," MS, TS 1-4 |
84 | 15 | "Humoresque," MS, TS 1-5 |
"Memorial," see "The Book of Yolek" | ||
84 | 16 | "In Memory of David Kalstone," MS, TS 1-4 |
84 | 17 | "Meditation," TS 1-4, proofs |
84 | 18 | "Murmur," ("Valvular Lesion"), MS 1, 2, TS 1-5 and TS edited for publication in The New Yorker, March 16, 1981 |
84 | 19 | "Naming the Animals," [variant title, "Nomenclator,"] MS [copy], TS |
84 | 20 | "Poem Without Anybody," MS, TS 1-5 |
84 | 21 | Proofs |
OP2 | 2 | Proofs, second |
OP2 | 2 | Proofs, author's set, copy 1, 2 |
84 | 22 | Proofs marked up for layout |
"Quid Pro Quo," see "Antapodosis" | ||
84 | 23 | Related material |
84 | 24 | "Riddles," MS draft, TS 1-5 |
84 | 25 | "See Naples and Die," notes, MS draft, MS draft, partial TS |
84 | 26 | Table of Contents, MS draft with notes |
84 | 27 | "Terms," MS drafts, TS drafts, notes |
84 | 28 | "To L.E. Sissman," TS 1-5 |
84 | 29 | " The Transparent Man," MS 1 (partial), 2, 3 (partial), TS 1 (copy), 2 |
84 | 30 | " The Transparent Man," TS |
Flight Among the Tombs, 1998 | ||
85 | 1 | "All Out," TS 1-4 |
85 | 2 | Bound proofs with Baskin engravings |
85 | 3 | Corrected proofs |
85 | 4 | Correspondence and other related material |
85 | 5 | "Death the Archbishop," TS 1-5 |
85 | 6 | "Death the Carnival Barker," MS, TS 1-6 |
85 | 7 | "Death the Copperplate Printer" ("Death the Etching Printer"), MS, TS 1-5 |
85 | 8 | "Death Demure," TS 1-3, MS |
85 | 9 | "Death the Film Director," photocopy, TS 1-3 |
85 | 10 | "Death the Hypocrite," MS, TS 1-5 |
85 | 11 | "Death the Inquisitor," TS 1, 2 |
85 | 12 | "Death the Judge" ("Death the Justice"), proof, TS 1-3 |
85 | 13 | "Death the Knight," TS |
85 | 14 | "Death as a Member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Like," TS 1-4 |
85 | 15 | "Death the Mexican Revolutionary," TS |
85 | 16 | "Death the Oxford Don," TS 1, 2 |
85 | 17 | "Death the Painter," TS 1-6, photocopy |
85 | 18 | "Death the Punchinello," MS, TS 1, 2 |
85 | 29 | "Death Riding Into Town," MS, TS 1-4 |
85 | 20 | "Death Sauntering About," TS 1-6 |
85 | 21 | "Death the Scholar," TS 1, 2 |
85 | 22 | "Death the Society Lady," TS |
85 | 23 | "Death the Whore," TS 1-5 |
85 | 24 | Early draft, alternate title, Flying Among the Toombs, TS |
85 | 25 | "For James Merrill: An Adieu," MS, TS 1-6 |
85 | 26 | "Là-bas: A Trance," MS, TS 1-6 |
85 | 27 | "The Life of Crime," MS 1-3, TS 1-7 |
85 | 28 | "Matisse: Blue Interior with Two Girls, 1947," MS, TS 1-3 |
85 | 29 | "The Message," MS |
85 | 30 | "The Mysteries of Caesar," MS 1-3, TS 1-7, notes |
85 | 31 | "Peekaboo," TS 1-9 |
85 | 32 | "A Pledge," MS, TS 1-4 |
85 | 33 | "Presumptions of Death," acknowledgements |
85 | 34 | "Presumptions of Death," mock-up, MS with illustrations |
85 | 35 | Proofs, correspondence, May 7, 1996 |
85 | 36 | Proofs, correspondence, May 24, 1996 |
85 | 37 | Proofs, correspondence, June 21, 1996 |
85 | 38 | "Prospects," MS, TS, proof |
85 | 39 | "Proust on Skates," MS, TS 1-8 |
85 | 40 | "A Ruminant," TS draft 1-4 |
85 | 41 | "Sisters," MS, TS 1, 2 |
85 | 42 | Skull emblem poem line/character count sheet |
85 | 43 | Table of contents, notes TS |
85 | 44 | "To Fortuna Parvulorum," TS 1, 2, epigraph |
85 | 45 | Typescript with notes |
85 | 46 | Unbound proofs with Baskin engravings, copy 1 |
85 | 47 | Unbound proofs with Baskin engravings, copy 2 |
85 | 48 | Various MS drafts |
85 | 49 | "The Whirligig of Time," MS, TS 1, 2 |
The Darkness and the Light, 2001 | ||
86 | 1 | Acknowledgements, TS |
86 | 2 | "The Ashen Light of Dawn," MS, TS 1-8 |
86 | 3 | "The Bequest," TS 1-3 |
86 | 4 | "A Brief Account of Our City," TS 1-3, photocopy, MS |
86 | 5 | "The Ceremony of Innocence," MS, TS 1-3 |
86 | 6 | "A Certain Slant," TS 1-6 |
86 | 7 | "Circles," MS, TS 1-7 |
86 | 8 | Contents, TS |
86 | 9 | Correspondence and related material, TS |
86 | 10 | " The Darkness and the Light are Both Alike to Thee," TS 1-10 |
86 | 11 | The Darkness and the Light, TS 1-3 |
86 | 12 | The Darkness and the Light, corrected TS |
86 | 13 | The Darkness and the Light, TS, setting copy |
86 | 14 | The Darkness and the Light, Waywiser Press page proofs, with TLS |
86 | 15 | The Darkness and the Light, Master [proof], 1st pass |
86 | 16 | The Darkness and the Light, Master [proof], 2nd pass |
86 | 17 | The Darkness and the Light, Master [proof], 3rd pass |
86 | 18 | The Darkness and the Light, Master [proof], 4th pass |
86 | 19 | The Darkness and the Light, dead matter [1 of 2] |
86 | 20 | The Darkness and the Light, dead matter [2 of 2] |
87 | 1 | "Despair," TS 1-3 |
87 | 2 | "Elders," MS, TS 1-9 |
87 | 3 | "A Fall," TS 1-4 |
87 | 4 | "Haman," TS, photocopy, MS |
87 | 5 | "The Hanging Gardens of Tyburn," TS 1, 2 |
87 | 6 | "Illumination," TS 1-3 |
87 | 7 | "I.M.E.M.," MS 1, 2, TS 1-3 |
87 | 8 | "Indolence," TS 1, 2, copy, proof |
87 | 9 | "Judith," MS, TS 1-3, photocopy |
87 | 10 | "Lapidary Inscription with Explanatory Note," MS, TS 1-8, notes |
87 | 11 | "Late Afternoon: The Onslaught of Love," TS 1-5 |
87 | 12 | "Le Jet d'Eau," MS, TS 1-8 |
87 | 13 | "Long-Distance Vision," TS 1-4 |
87 | 14 | "Look Deep," TS 1-3 |
87 | 15 | "Lot's Wife," MS, TS 1-3, photocopy |
87 | 16 | "Memory," MS, TS 1-7, photocopy, proof, correspondence |
87 | 17 | "Miriam," MS, TS 1, 2 |
87 | 18 | "Mirror," proof, correspondence, MS, TS 1-16 |
87 | 19 | "Nocturne: A Recurring Dream," MS, TS 1-5, photocopy |
86 | 20 | Notes, TS 1-3 |
87 | 21 | "Once More, With Feeling," MS, TS 1-5 |
87 | 22 | "An Orphic Calling," TS 1-11 |
87 | 23 | "The Plastic and the Poetic Form," MS, TS 1, 2 |
87 | 24 | Poem title list, TS draft |
87 | 25 | "Poppy," TS 1-3 [variant title: "A Pair of Heroes"] |
87 | 26 | "Praise for Anthony Hecht's The Darkness and the Light," [comments for dust jacket?], proofs |
87 | 27 | "A Prayer to Twin Divinities," MS, TS 1, 2, notes |
87 | 28 | "Public Gardens," TS 1-5 |
87 | 29 | "Rara Avis in Terris," MS, TS 1-11 |
87 | 30 | "The Road to Damascus," MS, TS 1-12 |
87 | 31 | "Sacrifice," TS 1-3, photocopy, notes, MS |
87 | 32 | "Samson," TS 1, 2, photocopy, notes |
87 | 33 | "Sarabande on Attaining the Age of Seventy-Seven," MS, TS 1-8, photocopy, proofs |
87 | 34 | "Saul and David," MS 1, 2, TS 1-6, photocopy |
87 | 35 | "Secrets," TS 1-3 |
87 | 36 | "A Special Occasion," MS, TS 1-3 |
87 | 37 | "A Symposium," TS 1-3 |
87 | 38 | "Taking Charge," MS, TS 1-4 |
87 | 39 | Title page, "Poppy," Elders," "Late Afternoon: The Onslaught of Love," and "Sacrifice," faxed proof copy |
87 | 40 | "The Witch of Endor," MS, TS 1-3, notes |
87 | 41 | "Witness," TS 1-3, proof |
The Various Light, 2001 | ||
87 | 42 | Related correspondence including proofs |
Collected Later Poems, 2004 | ||
88 | 1 | Correspondence and related materials |
88 | 2 | Dust jacket, proofs |
88 | 3 | Proofs [1 of 2] |
88 | 4 | Proofs [2 of 2] |
88 | 5 | Rough page proofs [1 of 3] |
88 | 6 | Rough page proofs [2 of 3] |
88 | 7 | Rough page proofs [3 of 3] |
88 | 8 | Sample proofs with ANS |
88 | 9 | Uncorrected proof, bound |
88 | 10 | The Waywiser Press galleys [1 of 3] |
88 | 11 | The Waywiser Press galleys [2 of 3] |
88 | 12 | The Waywiser Press galleys [3 of 3] |
A Fresh Curriculum of Love, unpublished | ||
88 | 13 | Proofs and related correspondence |