His last collection The Darkness and the Light revisits his fondness for writing about the Holocaust; years before that he published a poem dedicated to Heinrich Blucher and Hannah Arendt that takes its title from Goethe's last words, "More Light, More Light!"
This man's first poetry collection is titled after Santayana's defense of Lucretius, and he delivered lectures for the public at the National Gallery in 1992, which were collected as On the Laws of the Poetic Art. Although this man's early work The Summoning of Stones is a meditation on the role of the poet, he established his cultured voice in such collections as Millions of Strange Shadows and The Venetian Vespers. From 1982 Â– 1984 this man served as Poet Laureate of the United States, replacing Anne Sexton. His last collection The Darkness and the Light revisits his fondness for writing about the Holocaust; years before that he published a poem dedicated to Heinrich Blucher and Hannah Arendt that takes its title from Goethe's last words, "More Light, More Light!" He began another of his poems "So there stood Matthew Arnold and this girl with the cliffs of England crumbing away behind them." For 10 points, identify this American poet who wrote "Dover Bitch."
This man's first poetry collection is titled after Santayana's defense of Lucretius, and he delivered lectures for the public at the National Gallery in 1992, which were collected as On the Laws of the Poetic Art.
Anthony Evan Hecht