Hardy's poetry, 1860-1928
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Hardy's poetry, 1860-1928
Macmillan, 1989
2nd ed
- : pbk
Available at 13 libraries
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Previous ed.: 1981
Bibliography: p. 189-192
Includes index
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Description
This is a study of the development of skill and maturity in Hardy's poetry which climaxed in his lyric poems. The author's examination reveals that the lyrics were a synthesis of the traditions of the major Romantic lyric, architectural theory, the late Gothic novel, painting and theories of art, philosophy, the Victorian novel, ballads, theories of the grotesque, the folklore of ghosts, essays on war and traditions of pastoral. Also contributing to this form of poetry, which the author contends was one of the great intellectual and artistic achievements of Victorian and modern times, was Hardy's discovery of the deep connections between the plot of Victorian life and his own, both of which were caught up in 50 year old dreams soon to be interrupted by the realities of 1912-1914. The author also wrote " Hardy's Metres And Victorian Prosody".
Table of Contents
Frontispiece - List of Plates - Acknowledgements - Introduction - PART 1 THE DEVELOPMENT OF HARDY'S MEDITATIVE LYRIC - A Mature Meditative Model - The Romantic Meditative Tradition - Nineteenth-Century Poems - Poems of 1904-11 - 'Poems of 1912-13' - Moments of Vision, 1917 - PART 2 THE PATTERNS IN HARDY'S POETRY - Hardy and the Gothic Revival - From Architect to Poet - The Intellectual and Literary Traditions - The Pattern Gestalt: Gothic Lights - Hardy and Art - The Development of Hardy's Patterns: The Novels - The Development of Hardy's Patterns: $he Dynasts and the Poems - PART 3 HARDY'S APOCALYPSE - Ballad Memory, 1866-1912 - Visionary Memory, 1913-27 - Hardy and the Grotesque - The Visionary Grotesque - War - EPILOGUE: INDIAN SUMMER: HARDY'S PASTORAL POETRY - Notes - Bibliography - Index
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