and poetry stretching from Wallace Stevens to John Donne. He is often described as a "traditionalist". In The Hard Hours (1967), Hecht begins to use his experiences as a soldier in Europe during World War II. Bibliography Poetry A Summoning of Stones (1954) The Hard Hours (1967) Millions of Strange Shadows (1977) The Venetian Vespers (1979) The Transparent Man (1990) Collected Earlier Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1990) Flight Among the Tombs (1998) The Darkness and the Light (2001) Collected Later Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003) Translations Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes (1973) (with Helen H. Bacon) Other Works Obbligati: Essays in Criticism (1986) The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W. H. Auden (1993) On the Laws of the Poetic Art (1995) Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (Johns Hopkins University Press) (2003) Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature (2007) (Illustrated by Barry Moser) References External links Modern American Poetry Society Hecht's page at Academy of American Poets Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Anthony Hecht papers, 1894-2005 United States Army personnel of World War II American Poets Laureate American male poets Bard College alumni Bard College faculty Columbia University alumni Formalist poets Georgetown University faculty American people of German-Jewish descent Harvard University faculty Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty Jewish poets Kenyon College alumni Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners Smith College faculty United States Army soldiers United States National Medal of Arts recipients University of Iowa alumni University of Rochester faculty Yale University faculty Horace Mann School alumni 1923 births 2004 deaths Bollingen Prize recipients 20th-century American poets 21st-century American poets 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers World War II poets American expatriates in Japan Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters