Anthony Hecht (b. 1923) The Dover Bitch, "More Light! More Light!" LINKS No links found. BIOGRAPHY Anthony Hecht (b. 1923) Born in New York City, Hecht attended Bard College (B.A., 1944). After three years in the U.S. Army, serving in Europe and Japan, he continued his education at Columbia University (M.A., 1950). Hecht has taught at several universities, including the University of Rochester, where he was professor of poetry and rhetoric in 1967. He is presently a professor in the graduate school of Georgetown University. His awards include a 1951 Prix de Rome, and Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Ford Foundation Fellowships, as well as the Bollingen Prize in Poetry. His first book of poetry, A Summer of Stones (1954), was followed by Hard Hours (1968), which won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, Millions of Strange Shadows (1977), Venetian Vespers (1979), and The Transparent Man (1990). His most recent collection of poems is Flight Among the Tombs (1996). Hecht is also the author of a collection of critical essays, Obbligati (1986). Acclaimed for his technical expertise, Hecht was first devoted to traditional poetic forms, and his work was sometimes described as "baroque" and "courtly." More recently, his work has become less decorative.