Naming The Animals By Anthony Hecht I Love Reading Words Love Reading By anthony hecht. having commanded adam to bestow. names upon all the creatures, god withdrew. to empyrean palaces of blue. that warm and windless morning long ago, and seemed to take no notice of the vexed. look on the young man's face as he took thought. of all the miracles the lord had wrought. now to be labeled, dubbed, yclept, indexed. Anthony hecht was a renowned poet and critic. a longtime professor of poetry at the university of rochester, hecht also taught at institutions such as georgetown, yale, harvard, and smith college. he served as poet laureate from 1982 to 1984, and won many of america’s most prestigious poetry awards, including the bollingen prize, the 1988.
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