HECHT, ANTHONY,
1923-2004.
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Subseries 2.3
Other writings, 1951-2004
Boxes 111-114, OP2
Scope and Content Note
The susbseries consists of typescript and manuscript miscellaneous prose works of Athony Hecht from 1951-2004 including translations, interviews, edited works, music, and performances. Drafts of Hecht's major translation effort, Seven Against Thebes (1973) are present as are materials both drafts and proofs relating to an important interview with Philip Hoy (1999). Also present are materials relating to a small number of musical compositions for which Hecht wrote the text (1951-1983) and a small group of public performances in which Hecht was involved (1943-2000).
Arrangement Note
Arranged into five areas: Translations; Interviews; Edited works; Music; and Performances.
Translations | ||
Box | Folder | Content |
---|---|---|
111 | 1 | "The Bells," from the French of Appolinaire, TS |
111 | 2 | "The Braggadocio of the Drunken Sailor," by Max Jacobs, TS |
111 | 3 | Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke/ The Ballad of the Love and Death of Standard Bearer Rilke, TS 1 |
111 | 4 | "The Fountain," by Charles Baudelaire, TS |
111 | 5 | Four poems by Charles Baudelaire, TS ["Je te done ces vers...," "Spleen," "Dellum," "Cats"] |
111 | 6 | "Lagoon," by Joseph Brodsky, MS, TS drafts, undated |
111 | 7 | Oedipus at Kolonos, unpublished, alternate version, incomplete, TS |
111 | 8 | Oedipus at Kolonus, unpublished, Chorus: "What is unwisdom but the lusting after," TS |
111 | 9 | Oedipus at Kolonus, Chorus: "Whoever wants a more than moderate share," MSS |
111 | 10 | Oedipus at Kolonus, final draft, TS with TLS |
111 | 11 | Oedipus at Kolonus, footnotes, TS |
111 | 12 | Oedipus at Kolonus, glossary, photocopy draft |
111 | 13 | Oedipus at Kolonus, MS drafts 1 |
111 | 14 | Oedipus at Kolonus, MS drafts 2 |
111 | 15 | Oedipus at Kolonus, MS drafts, various |
111 | 16 | Oedipus at Kolonus, TS 1 |
111 | 17 | Oedipus at Kolonus, TS 2 |
111 | 18 | Oedipus at Kolonus, TS 3 |
111 | 19 | Oedipus at Kolonus, introduction, TS |
111 | 20 | Oedipus at Kolonus, "A Note on the Cast," photocopy draft |
111 | 21 | Oedipus at Kolonus, partial manuscript draft, TS |
111 | 22 | Oedipus at Kolonus, related correspondence |
112 | 1 | "Poem upon the Lisbon Disaster," by Voltaire, galley proofs |
112 | 2 | Seven Against Thebes, 1973, draft of title page, fourteen pages of text and notes, MS |
112 | 3 | Seven Against Thebes, 1973, draft, MS |
112 | 4 | Seven Against Thebes, 1973, Draft 1, TS |
112 | 5 | Seven Against Thebes, 1973, photocopy of draft 1, TS |
112 | 6 | Seven Against Thebes, 1973, photocopy of draft 1 TS (without introduction, corrections) |
112 | 7 | Seven Against Thebes, 1973, photocopy of draft TS with staging directions [incomplete] |
112 | 8 | Seven Against Thebes, 1973, draft 2, TS |
112 | 9 | Seven Against Thebes, 1973, draft 3, TS |
112 | 10 | Seven Against Thebes, 1973, draft, TS [1 of 2] |
112 | 11 | Seven Against Thebes, 1973, draft, TS [2 of 2] |
112 | 12 | Seven Against Thebes, 1973, final draft, TS with TLS |
112 | 13 | Seven Against Thebes, 1973, proofs, corrected |
112 | 14 | Seven Against Thebes, 1973, related materials |
112 | 15 | "Tacitus, Dialogus de Oratioribus, 9-10 (modified), TS" |
112 | 16 | Untitled poem from Pierre de Ronsard, corrected TS and copy |
112 | 17 | Miscellaneous: Various translations from published works, copies |
Interviews | ||
113 | 1 | "Plimpton Tape", transcript of interview with Alan Tate, Anthony Hecht, TS, carbon copy, correspondence, circa 1965 |
113 | 2 | Anthony Hecht interviewed by Gh. Florescu "for the reader and lover of Romanian poetry," October 1984, questions, TS |
113 | 3 | "The Art of Poetry XXXX: Anthony Hecht," J.D. McClatchy, The Paris Review, 108, Fall 1988, TS draft |
113 | 4 | "The Art of Poetry XXXX: Anthony Hecht," J.D. McClatchy, The Paris Review, 108, Fall 1988, TS draft, correspondence |
113 | 5 | "Robert Lowell", a film produced by the New York Center for Visual History, 1995, interview questions TS, interview schedule, correspondence113 |
113 | 7 | Anthony Hecht in Conversation with Philip Hoy, 1999: answers. Draft1, 8TS [incomplete] |
113 | 8 | Anthony Hecht in Conversation with Philip Hoy, 1999: answers, Draft 2, TS |
113 | 9 | Anthony Hecht in Conversation with Philip Hoy, 1999: Draft A, TS |
113 | 10 | Anthony Hecht in Conversation with Philip Hoy, 1999: Draft B, TS |
113 | 11 | Anthony Hecht in Conversation with Philip Hoy, 1999: Draft C, TS |
113 | 12 | Anthony Hecht in Conversation with Philip Hoy, 1999: inserts and additions, TS |
113 | 13 | Anthony Hecht in Conversation with Philip Hoy, 1999: bibliography |
113 | 14 | Anthony Hecht in Conversation with Philip Hoy, 1999: cover proofs |
113 | 15 | Anthony Hecht in Conversation with Philip Hoy, 1999: cover proofs for paperback edition |
113 | 16 | Anthony Hecht in Conversation with Philip Hoy, 1999: partial proofs |
113 | 17 | Anthony Hecht in Conversation with Philip Hoy, 1999: final proofs |
113 | 18 | Anthony Hecht in Conversation with Philip Hoy, 1999: "Anthony Hecht in Interview with Philip Hoy" (extracts from an earlier version of the interview featured in this book), Stand, New Series, 1:1, March 1999, proof |
113 | 19 | Anthony Hecht in Conversation with Philip Hoy, 1999: correspondence |
113 | 20 | "The Life of a Poet: An Interview with Anthony Hech", interview with Bruce Cole for Humanities magazine, 2004, TS with TLS |
Edited Works | ||
114 | 1 | The Essential Herbert, 1987, introduction, drafts 1, 2 TS |
114 | 2 | The Essential Herbert, 1987, i |
114 | 3 | The Essential Herbert, 1987, title list, drafts 1, 2 TS |
Music | ||
114 | 4 | "How Pale the World," words by Anthony Hecht, score by Ned Rorem, 5with related material |
114 | 5 | Untitled "Song," Anthony Hecht/Marcabru |
114 | 6 | "A Springtide Anthem for St. James' Fair," with correspondence |
OP2 | 3 | "A Choir of Starlings," serenata for four voices and ten instruments, text by Anthony Hecht, score by Leo Smit, circa 1951 |
114 | 7 | "Cantata Sketches," score, 1952 |
114 | 8 | "More Light," composition for voice and string quartet, music by Poundie Burnstein, text abridged from poem by Hecht, bound photocopy, 1979 |
114 | 9 | "A Love for Four Voices: Homage to Franz Joseph Hyden," MS drafts [1 of 2], circa 1983 |
114 | 10 | "A Love for Four Voices: Homage to Franz Joseph Hyden," MS drafts [2 of 2], circa 1983 |
114 | 11 | "A Love for Four Voices: Homage to Franz Joseph Hyden," proofs, 1983 |
Performances | ||
114 | 12 | We're Rushed, Army Specialized Training Unit, Northfield High School, Northfield, Minnesota, program, December 18, 1943 |
114 | 13 | "The Mad Tea Party," TS of Hecht's part as Mad Hatter, Bard College |
114 | 14 | Reading, April 12, 1977, related materials |
114 | 15 | An Evening of Literature and Music, 1979-1984 |
114 | 16 | Williamsburg/ College of William and Mary Writer's Festival, March 21-?, 1984 |
114 | 17 | Light Verse, reading at the Library of Congress, December 13, 1988, poem title list and photocopies of poems |
114 | 18 | World Poetry Festival, Harbourfront Reading Series, Toronto, April 6-11, 1992 |
114 | 19 | New York Public Library, April 18, 1990 |
114 | 20 | Key West Literary Seminar, January 7-10, 1993 |
114 | 21 | "Shakespeare and the Poets," Unterberg Poetry Center The Voice of Literature, January, 2000 |