More Light!," who parodied Matthew Arnold in his "The Dover Bitch."
This author wrote a poem in which the world dissolves into a "mole-colored and bare" landscape, in which the "crack of a rifle" portends the "soft and papery crash / Of a great branch somewhere unseen falling to earth." He wrote that "no prayers or incense rose up in those hours / Which grew to be years," in the interval that a man bleeds out after being shot in the stomach, in a poem that compares the legs of a different man to "blistered sticks on which the black sap / Bubbled and burst." This author included "A Hill" and other poems inspired by his wartime service in (*) Germany in his Pulitzer-winning collection The Hard Hours, which features a poem in which a Pole is forced to bury two Jews alive. This author wrote a poem about a girl who is angry at being "addressed / As a sort of mournful cosmic last resort" despite having "read / Sophocles in a fairly good translation." For 10 points, name this American poet of "More Light! More Light!," who parodied Matthew Arnold in his "The Dover Bitch."
This author wrote a poem in which the world dissolves into a "mole-colored and bare" landscape, in which the "crack of a rifle" portends the "soft and papery crash / Of a great branch somewhere unseen falling to earth."
Anthony Hecht