A Bountiful Harvest: The Correspondence of Anthony Hecht and William L. MacDonald

by Anthony Hecht

Overview

The complete correspondence of poet Anthony Hecht and architectural historian, William L. MacDonald, whose friendship lasted for the best part of four decades from the mid 1950s. A remarkable testament to their erudition, wit, knockabout humor, and humanity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904130901
Publisher:	Waywiser Press
Publication date:	12/20/2017
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Philip Hoy was born in London in 1952, and educated at the Universities of York and Leeds. He has a Ph.D in Philosophy, a subject he taught most recently for the University of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education. Prior to founding The Waywiser Press, he co-founded (with Peter Dale and Ian Hamilton) Between The Lines, now an imprint of Waywiser, which is devoted to publishing book- length interviews with contemporary poets. His most recent publication is "The Transatlantic Disconnect," which is a modified version of the paper he delivered at the AWP conference in Boston, Massachusetts in March 2013, where his fellow panellists were Adam Kirsch, Eric McHenry, Mary Jo Salter and Rosanna Warren (The Warwick Review, September 2013). Previous publications include W.D. Snodgrass in Conversation with Philip Hoy (Between The Lines, London, 1998), Anthony Hecht in Conversation with Philip Hoy (Between The Lines, London, 1999, 2001), and Donald Justice in Conversation with Philip Hoy (Between The Lines, London, 2001). A fine press edition of Anthony's Hecht's last poems, Interior Skies, for which Hoy has written the foreword, was recently published by Liv Rockefeller and Kenneth Shure's Two Ponds Press.

Table of Contents

Introduction 11

A Note on the Text 21

1 1957-1968 27

2 1969-1980 47

3 1981-1992 277

Afterword 459

Chronology 467

Glossary of Names 479

Acknowledgments 511

Index 517