Places Never Explained
Colm Tóibín: Anthony Hecht, 8 August 2013
The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht
edited by Jonathan Post.
Johns Hopkins, 365 pp., £18, November 2012,978 1 4214 0730 2 Show More
edited by Jonathan Post.
Johns Hopkins, 365 pp., £18, November 2012,
“... but none in a way that is easy to interpret. Perhaps the very act of bombing from a plane – what Richard Eberhart called ‘The Fury of Aerial Bombardment’, the gap between, in J.M. Synge’s phrase, ‘a gallous story and a dirty deed’ – made it impossible for anyone, including Yeats in ‘An Irish Airman Foresees His Death’, a poem which seems to ... ”