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Subseries 2.2b
Essays, 1962-2004
Box 91-100
Scope and Content Note
The section consists of manuscript and typescript drafts of prose written by Anthony Hecht from 1962-2004 including published and unpublished essays. Some drafts may include related notes and correspondence.
Arrangement Note
Organized into two sections: unpublished essays which are arranged alphabetically by title and and published essays arranged chronologically by publication date.
Essays-Publication unknown | ||
Box | Folder | Content |
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100 | 4 | "Alexander Pope," [for publication in Literary Genius: Reflections on Twenty-five Great English and American Writers], TS [two drafts], notes, related correspondence |
100 | 5 | "The Critic as Responsible Dreamer,"TS |
100 | 6 | "De Gustibus," MS and TS notes |
100 | 7 | "De-May 13," Essay on DeWitt Snodgrass, 2002, TS |
100 | 8 | "Emily Dickinson," TS, correspondence |
100 | 9 | "For the Tribute to Henry Taylor," 2 drafts, TS |
100 | 10 | " The Hidden Law Reconsidered," draft 1, TS |
100 | 11 | " The Hidden Law Reconsidered," draft 2, TS |
100 | 12 | "Introduction," to Poets at Work: the Paris Review interviews [solicited but unpublished], draft TS 1, 2, correspondence, photocopy |
100 | 13 | "Isaiah 11:1-10," TS draft 1, 2 |
100 | 14 | "I Kings 17:8-16 and Mark 12:38-44," TS draft, notes |
100 | 15 | "The Man-Moth," essay on Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, TS |
100 | 16 | "A Note on the Relations of Prose to Poetry," drafts 1, 2, 3 TS |
100 | 17 | "Now the leaves are Falling fast," analysis of W.H. Auden poem, "Autumn Song," TS |
100 | 18 | "Obiter Scripta: An Industrial Waste of a Writer's Life," draft TS |
100 | 19 | "On The Book of Yolek," TS, correspondence |
100 | 20 | "On Jacques Maritain's Creative Intuition in Art & Poetry" TS |
100 | 1 | "Perspectives in Lyric Poetry" drafts 1, 2 TS, notes |
100 | 22 | "Reflections on Auden," drafts 1, 2, 3 TS |
100 | 23 | Response to editorial by Norman Podhoretz ("Should Writers Rule the World?" December 31, 1987) TS draft |
100 | 24 | "A Response to Your Inquiry," TS draft |
100 | 25 | Review of several books on Shelley, TS |
100 | 26 | Review of The Continuous Life, by Mark Strand, draft 1, 2 TS |
100 | 27 | Review of Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It, by Brett C. Miller, TS, correspondence, draft |
100 | 28 | Review of Lectures On Shakespeare, by W.H. Auden, edited by Arthur Kirsch, notes, TS |
100 | 29 | Review of Sylvia Plath: a literary life, by Linda Wagner-Martin, and Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle, by Jeffrey Meyers, drafts 1, 2 TS, correspondence, notes |
100 | 30 | Review of The Teaching Legacy of O.B. Hardison, Jr., with Selected Writings on Education by Dennis f. Brestensky, draft TS with notes |
100 | 31 | Review of Time Will Darken It, by William Maxwell, draft TS |
100 | 32 | Richard Wilbur, [dated October 14, 2001], TS |
100 | 33 | "Robert Frost," TS |
100 | 34 | "A Seventieth Birthday Salute," [Jon Stallworthy], three drafts, TS |
100 | 35 | "Shakespeare Guild; Everyman Shakespeare," TS |
100 | 36 | "A Song from 'The Princess,'" TS |
100 | 37 | "Styles: Plain, Fancy and Mixed," TS, photocopy |
100 | 38 | Untitled essay about how Hecht became a poet, TS draft 1,2 |
100 | 39 | Untitled essay on children's poetry, TS draft |
100 | 40 | Untitled essay on "Lagoon" by Joseph Brodsky, TS, undated |
100 | 41 | Untitled essay on the writing of poetry and the preservation of sanity, TS, draft |
100 | 42 | [ The Venetian Vespers] TS |
100 | 43 | "'The Waste Land': A Note on a Note," TS, drafts 1,2 |
100 | 44 | "W.H. Auden," drafts 1, 2 TS |
100 | 45 | A Writer's Guide to Great Books, 1998, Hecht's contribution, TS drafts 1, 2, correspondence, contract |
Essays-Publication known | ||
101 | 1 | "Shades of Keats and Marvell," The Hudson Review, Spring 1962, draft 1, TS and MS |
101 | 2 | "Shades of Keats and Marvell," The Hudson Review, Spring 1962, draft 2, TS |
101 | 3 | Review of Wilbur's The Mind Reader, Times Literary Supplement, May 20, 1977, drafts 1, 2 TS |
101 | 4 | Review of Bishop's Geography III, Times Literary Supplement, August 26, 1977, TS and correspondence |
101 | 5 | "The Riddles of Emily Dickinson," New England Review, Autumn 1978, draft 1, TS |
101 | 6 | "The Riddles of Emily Dickinson," New England Review, Autumn 1978, draft 2, TS |
101 | 7 | "The Riddles of Emily Dickinson," New England Review, Autumn 1978, draft 3, TS |
101 | 8 | "The Riddles of Emily Dickinson," New England Review, Autumn 1978, draft 4, TS |
101 | 9 | "The Riddles of Emily Dickinson," New England Review, Autumn 1978, proof |
101 | 10 | "On W. H. Auden's 'In Praise of Limestone'," New England Review, Spring 1979, draft 1, TS |
101 | 11 | "On W. H. Auden's 'In Praise of Limestone'," New England Review, Spring 1979, draft 2, TS |
101 | 12 | "On W. H. Auden's 'In Praise of Limestone'," New England Review, Spring 1979, draft 3, TS |
101 | 13 | Response to "On W. H. Auden's 'In Praise of Limestone'," TS |
101 | 14 | "John Crowe Ransom," American Scholar, Summer 1980, notes, related correspondence |
101 | 15 | "John Crowe Ransom," American Scholar, Summer 1980, draft 1, TS |
101 | 16 | "John Crowe Ransom," American Scholar, Summer 1980, draft 2, TS |
101 | 17 | "John Crowe Ransom," American Scholar, Summer 1980, correspondence |
101 | 18 | "Masters of Unpleasantness," The New York Times, February 7, 1982, TS |
101 | 19 | "Elbert Weinburg," Arts Magazine, 57:4, November 1982, TS |
101 | 20 | "Le Byron de nos Jours," review of Hamilton's Robert Lowell: A Biography, Grand Street, Spring 1983, notes |
101 | 21 | "Le Byron de nos Jours," review of Hamilton's Robert Lowell: A Biography, Grand Street, Spring 1983, draft 1, TS |
101 | 22 | "Le Byron de nos Jours," review of Hamilton's Robert Lowell: A Biography, Grand Street, Spring 1983, draft 2, TS |
101 | 23 | "Le Byron de nos Jours," review of Hamilton's Robert Lowell: A Biography, Grand Street, Spring 1983, TS draft 3 |
101 | 24 | "Le Byron de nos Jours," review of Hamilton's Robert Lowell: A Biography, Grand Street, Spring 1983, galley |
101 | 25 | "Symposium of Poets on T. S. Eliot: Permanent Surprise," Southern Review, Fall 1985, TS, copy |
101 | 26 | Review of Peter Ackroyd's T.S. Eliot: A Biography, The Washington Post, Book World, 16, November 23, 1986, notes, TS draft 1, 2 |
101 | 27 | "A Passion to Write: Three American Women," review of Willis's The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore, Washington Post Book World, November 23, 1986, TS |
101 | 28 | "Marie Bullock," Poets & Writers, March 1987, corrected TS, correspondence |
101 | 29 | "Portraits by Robert Lowell," review of Robert Lowell: Collected Prose, New York Review of Books, March 3, 1988, TS, proofs |
101 | 30 | Review of Richard Wilbur's New and Collected Poems, The New Republic, May 16, 1988, notes, TS draft 1, 2, edited proofs |
101 | 31 | Review of Walter Sullivan's Allen Tate: A Recollection, The Washington Times, January 23, 1989, notes, draft, correspondence |
101 | 32 | Review of Richard Ellmann's a long the riverrun, "A Map of Modernist Reading," Washington Post Book World, March 26, 1989 |
101 | 33 | "The First Eighteen Lines of 'The Waste Land,'" The Yale Review, 78:2, The T.S. Eliot Memorial Issue, September 1989, 202-209, TS draft, photocopy, correspondence |
101 | 34 | "The Case of the Dizzy Detective," review of Rowse's The Poet Auden: A Personal Memoir, The New York Review of Books, December 21, 1989, TS draft, proofs A, B, notes, correspondence |
101 | 35 | Review of Richard H. Prit chard's Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life, Washington Times, April 16, 1990, TS draft |
101 | 36 | Essay on the Epistle to the Galatians, in Incarnation: Contemporary Writers on the New Testament, 1990, TS, correspondence, notes, galley proof |
101 | 37 | Essay on Leonard Baskin's Horned Beetles and Other Insects, in Caprices, Grotesques & Homages: Leonard Baskin and the Gehanna Press, 1994, proof, correspondence, TS, draft |
101 | 38 | "John Crowe Ransom," Wilson Quarterly Spring 1994, TS draft 1, 2, proofs |
102 | 1 | "L. E. Sissman," The Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1995, TS |
102 | 2 | "Ben Jonson," Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1995, TS |
102 | 3 | "Ben Jonson," Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1995, proofs |
102 | 4 | "Ben Jonson," Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1995, correspondence |
102 | 5 | "George Starbuck," Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1995, April 5 proofs |
102 | 6 | "George Starbuck," Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1995, April 20 proofs |
102 | 7 | "George Starbuck," Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1995, April 24 proofs |
102 | 8 | "George Starbuck," Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1995, final proofs |
102 | 9 | "George Starbuck," Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1995, correspondence |
102 | 10 | "Carl Dennis," Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1996, TS |
102 | 11 | "Carl Dennis," Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1996, proofs, related correspondence |
102 | 12 | "In Appreciation of Joseph Brodsky 1940-1996," Poetry Review, Spring 1996, TS drafts, related correspondence- |
102 | 13 | "In Appreciation of Joseph Brodsky 1940-1996," Poetry Review, Spring 1996, proofs |
102 | 14 | "Joseph Brodsky," Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1996, TS drafts, correspondence |
102 | 15 | "Joseph Brodsky," Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1996, proofs |
102 | 16 | "How to Tell a Hawk from a Handsaw," Review of Richard Davenport-Hine's Auden, The Yale Review, 84:3, July 1996, notes |
102 | 17 | "How To Tell a Hawk From a Handsaw," Review of Richard Davenport-Hine's Auden, The Yale Review, 84:3, July 1996, draft 1, TS |
102 | 18 | "How To Tell a Hawk From a Handsaw," Review of Richard Davenport-Hine's Auden, The Yale Review, 84:3, July 1996, draft 2 TS |
102 | 19 | "At War With His Memories," review of Paul Fussell's Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic, Washington Post Book World, September 29, 1996, draft TS, notes |
102 | 20 | "At War With His Memories," review of Paul Fussell's Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic, Washington Post Book World, September 29, 1996, correspondence, draft TS, contract |
102 | 21 | "May Swenson," Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1997, TS |
102 | 22 | "May Swenson," Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1997, proofs |
102 | 23 | "The Sonnet: Ruminations on Form, Sex and History," The Antioch Review, Spring 1997, draft 1, TS |
102 | 24 | "The Sonnet: Ruminations on Form, Sex and History," The Antioch Review, Spring 1997, draft 2, TS |
102 | 25 | "Walter de la Mare," Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1997, TS, draft |
102 | 26 | "Eugenio Montale," Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1998, TS, draft, notes |
102 | 27 | "Eugenio Montale," Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1998, proofs |
102 | 28 | "Eugenio Montale," Wilson Quarterly, Summer 1998, correspondence |
102 | 29 | "Horace," Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1998, TS |
102 | 30 | "Horace," Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1998, selected poems |
102 | 31 | "Horace," Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1998, correspondence |
102 | 32 | "Missing the Boat," Night Errands: How Poets Use Dreams, edited by Roderick Townley, 1998, computer edited TS with correspondence |
102 | 33 | "On Rhyme," The Yale Review, 87:2, April 1999, draft TS, proofs, correspondence, notes |
102 | 34 | "Technique in Housman," The Yale Review, 87:8, October 1999, TS draft, correspondence, proofs |
102 | 35 | "The Browning-Howard Connection," Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1999, TS drafts 1, 2 |
102 | 36 | "The Browning-Howard Connection," Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1999, selected poems |
102 | 37 | "The Browning-Howard Connection," Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1999, correspondence |
102 | 38 | "The Browning-Howard Connection," Wilson Quarterly, Winter 1999, fax proof, correspondence |
102 | 39 | "Anthony Hecht on Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge," First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems that Captivated and Inspired Them, edited by Carmela Ciuraru, 2000, TS |
102 | 40 | "Tennyson's Homer," The Paris Review, 42:154, Spring 2000, notes, correspondence, proof |
102 | 41 | Review of Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amachai, The New York Review of Books, November 2, 2000, TS, proofs, and related materials |
103 | 1 | "Bard on Bard," The Yale Review, volume 89, number 3, July 2001, proofs with related correspondence |
103 | 2 | Review of Night Picnic and A Fly in the Soup by Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books, October 18, 2001, corrected proofs with related correspondence |
103 | 3 | "Blank Verse," An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art, edited by Annie Finch and Kathrine Varnes, 2002, page proofs |
103 | 4 | "On Jacuqes Maritain's Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry," The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the fine arts: fifty years, 2002, notes |
103 | 5 | "On Jacques Maritain's Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry," The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the fine arts: fifty years, 2002, drafts 1, 2, 3 TS, correspondence |
103 | 6 | "Sidney and the Sestina," Green Thoughts, Green Shades, edited by Jonathan Post, 2002, TS with related correspondence [see also: Writings by Hecht /Prose/ Book-Length works/ Melodies Unheard] |
103 | 7 | Review of Finders Keepers by Seamus Heaney, The New York Review of Books, December 2, 2002, proofs, TS notes, MS notes |
103 | 8 | Introduction to Someone Else's Name by Joseph Harrison, 2003, TS, two drafts |
103 | 9 | Foreword to Words Brushed by Music edited by John T. Irwin, 2004, 3 drafts, TS |
103 | 10 | "Keats's Appetite," Keats-Shelly Review 2004, five drafts, with additional pages and related correspondence |
103 | 11 | "Keats's Appetite," Keats-Shelly Review 2004, TS with related correspondence |
103 | 12 | "Keats's Appetite," Keats-Shelly Review, 2004, proofs |
103 | 13 | " Time Will Darken It.," written for A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations, 2004, two drafts, proofs and related material |
103 | 14 | "Frederick Morgan," ["An Immense Generosity"], The New York Sun, March 24, 2004, TS |
103 | 15 | Keats's Appetite," The Yale Review, volume 92, number 5, July 2004, corrected proofs with related correspondence |
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