Author: Anthony Hecht 

In this book, eminent poet Anthony Hecht explores the art of poetry and its relationship to the other fine arts.

While the problems he treats entail both philosophic and theoretical discussion, he never allows abstract speculation to overshadow his delight in the written texts that he introduces, or in the specific examples of painting and music to which he refers.

After discussing literature’s links with painting and music, Hecht investigates the theme of paradise and wilderness, especially in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”