Professor Hecht, here are three questions I''ve long wanted to ask you:
In the hard hours of a very long life, you’ve earned your perch high above the Phaedriades Cliffs and the Kastallian Spring. What do you think of the youngsters swarming the lower slopes of Parnassus, and what advice do you have to give us?
My teacher, R.P. Warren, studied with John Crowe Ransom at Vanderbilt, and I believe you studied with him at Kenyon. What do you think of him, both as a poet and a teacher?
How highly do you prize Thomas Hardy in the pantheon of English verse, and has your esteem for him grown as you have grown older?
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