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Anthony Hecht was born on 16 January, 1923 in New York City, is an American poet (1923–2004). Discover Anthony Hecht's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 16 January 1923
Birthday 16 January
Birthplace New York City
Date of death 20 October, 2004
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1923

Anthony Evan Hecht (January 16, 1923 – October 20, 2004) was an American poet.

His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, and the Holocaust being recurrent themes in his work.

Hecht was born in New York City to German-Jewish parents.

He was educated at various schools in the city – he was a classmate of Jack Kerouac at Horace Mann School – but showed no great academic ability, something he would later refer to as "conspicuous".

However, as a freshman English student at Bard College in New York he discovered the works of Wallace Stevens, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, and Dylan Thomas.

It was at this point that he decided he would become a poet.

Hecht's parents were not happy at his plans and tried to discourage them, even getting family friend Ted Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, to attempt to dissuade him.

1944

In 1944, upon completing his final year at Bard, Hecht was drafted into the 97th Infantry Division and was sent to the battlefields in Europe.

He saw combat in Germany in the "Ruhr Pocket" and in Cheb in Czechoslovakia.

1945

However, his most significant experience occurred on April 23, 1945, when Hecht's division helped liberate Flossenbürg concentration camp.

Hecht was ordered to interview French prisoners in the hope of gathering evidence on the camp's commanders.

Years later, Hecht said of this experience, "The place, the suffering, the prisoners' accounts were beyond comprehension. For years after I would wake shrieking."

After the war ended, Hecht was sent to occupied Japan, where he became a staff writer with Stars and Stripes.

1946

He returned to the US in March 1946 and immediately took advantage of the G.I. Bill to study under the poet–critic John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College, Ohio.

Here he came into contact with fellow poets such as Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Allen Tate.

He later received his master's degree from Columbia University.

1947

In 1947 Hecht attended the University of Iowa and taught in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, together with writer Robie Macauley, with whom Hecht had served during World War II, but, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after his war service, gave it up swiftly to enter psychoanalysis.

In spring, 1947, he taught at Kenyon.

His first poems, "Once Removed" and "To a Soldier Killed in Germany", were published in The Kenyon Review.

Later that year, he suffered a nervous breakdown and returned to his parents' home in New York City and entered psychoanalysis.

1948

In 1948, his poems begin to appear in The Hudson Review, Poetry, and Furioso.

He later won the Furioso Poetry Award and enrolled at Columbia University as a candidate for a master's degree in English literature.

1951

Even at this stage Hecht's poetry was often compared with that of W. H. Auden, with whom Hecht had become friends in 1951 during a holiday on the Italian island of Ischia, where Auden spent each summer.

1954

Hecht released his first collection, A Summoning of Stones, in 1954.

1959

In his second book, The Hard Hours, Hecht first addressed his own experiences of World War II – memories that had caused him to have a nervous breakdown in 1959.

Hecht spent three months in hospital following his breakdown, although he was spared electric shock therapy, unlike Sylvia Plath, whom he had encountered while teaching at Smith College.

1967

Hecht's main source of income was as a teacher of poetry, most notably at the University of Rochester, where he taught from 1967 to 1985.

He also spent varying lengths of time teaching at other notable institutions such as Smith, Bard, Harvard, Georgetown, and Yale.

In The Hard Hours (1967), Hecht drew upon his experiences as a soldier in Europe during World War II.

1968

Hecht won a number of literary awards including: the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (for The Hard Hours), the 1983 Bollingen Prize, the 1988 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the 1989 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the 1997 Wallace Stevens Award, the 1999/2000 Frost Medal, and the Tanning Prize.

1982

Between 1982 and 1984, he held the esteemed position of Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

1993

In 1993 Hecht published The Hidden Law, a critical reading of Auden's body of work.

2004

Hecht died on October 20, 2004, at his home in Washington, D.C.; he is buried at the cemetery at Bard College.

One month later, on November 17, Hecht was awarded the National Medal of Arts, accepted on his behalf by his wife, Helen Hecht.

The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize is awarded annually by the Waywiser Press.

Hecht was known for his masterful use of traditional forms and linguistic control.

Extraordinarily erudite, his verse often features allusions to French literature, Greek myth, and tragedy, and English poets and poetry stretching from Wallace Stevens to John Donne.

He was often described as a "traditionalist".