_ANTHONY HECHT teaches in the English Department of the University of
Rochester. He is the author of several books of poetry, of which the
most recent are_ The Hard Hours _(1967) and_ Aesopic _(1968). His poems
appear in many anthologies and he has contributed to the_ Hudson
Review, _the_ New York Review of Books, Quarterly Review of Literature,
_and other periodicals. He also translated (with Helen H. Bacon)
Aeschylus'_ Seven Against Thebes _(1973)._