Anthony Hecht explains the comparative structure of the poem between executions of the English Renaissance and Buchenwald in an audio recording (along with full text of the poem) on the Poetry Foundation website.
Locations in Harold's Library
- Poets of World War II (book)
- The New Oxford Book of War Poetry (book)
- The Rattle Bag (book)
- page 293
- Emergency Kit (book)
- page 21
- Here to Eternity: An Anthology of Poetry (book)
- page 285
- in "War"
- The Hundred Years’ War: Modern War Poems (book)
- page 219
- in "Second World War"
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