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The Dover Bitch
- Anthony Hecht (1923-)

© Anthony Hecht
It can be found for example in: Abcarian, Richard, and Marvin Klotz, eds. Literature: The Human Experience (Shorter Fourth Edition with Essays). New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.

The poem was written in response to Matthew Arnold's Dover Beach.

Hecht was awareded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1983.