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Full Name: Anthony Evan Hecht
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(1923-2004) Poet. Anthony Evan Hecht was born in Manhattan, New York, in 1923. He was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1982 to 1984.
Author's Timeline:
1923 New York County
Anthony Hecht was born in Manhattan, New York in 1923. 
2001 (Unknown) County
The Darkness and the Light
(Pub: Knopf; 1st edition ISBN: 0375411941 )
Collection of poetry. 
2004 (Unknown) County
Anthony Hecht died in Washington, D.C. in 2004. 
2004 Dutchess County
Anthony Hecht is buried at Bard College Cemetery, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.  
1954 (Unknown) County
A Summoning of Stones
Collection of poetry. 
1968 (Unknown) County
Hecht won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his second work, "The Hard Hours" (1968). 
1967 Monroe County
Hecht taught poetry at the University of Rochester from 1967 to 1985. 
1967 (Unknown) County
The Hard Hours
Poetry collection. Pulitzer Prize-winner. 
1958 (Unknown) County
The Seven Deadly Sins
Poetry collection. 
1960 (Unknown) County
A Bestiary
Poetry collection. 
1977 (Unknown) County
Millions of Strange Shadows
Poetry collection. 
1979 (Unknown) County
The Venetian Vespers
Poetry collection. 
1996 (Unknown) County
Flight Among the Tombs
Poetry collection. 
1990 (Unknown) County
The Transparent Man
Collection of poetry. 
2003 (Unknown) County
Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry
Collection of essays. 
? Dutchess County
Hecht attended Bard College in Annadale-On-Hudson, New York. 
? New York County
Hecht received a master's degree from Columbia University, New York, New York. 

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