Anthony Hecht

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Anthony Hecht (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

Biography

Anthony Ivan Hecht was born on January 16, 1923, in New York City, to German-Jewish parents. His literary career, he once said, would begin soon after, with the intrigue and enchantment of nursery rhyme songs that he dwelt upon and tried to envision. With “My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean”—which he misheard as “My Body Lies over the Ocean”—his visions of such ghoulish ditties, though frightening, encouraged his appetite for poetry. He instinctively knew poetry to be about the unspoken and the unspeakable, which would influence him for the next eighty...

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