Thomas Hardy's poetry
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Thomas Hardy's poetry
(Open guides to literature)
Open University Press, 1993
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Bibliography: p. 104-107
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This guide focuses on one of the most popular of 20th century poets. If offers a thorough introduction to Hardy's poetry, mainly for readers with little or no previous acquaintance with it. It begins with a simple conversation with the student about a group of poems under four headings. Then, after a chapter summarizing the relevant events of Hardy's life, chapters three to six expand on each of these four headings; seeing; love; death; and language. In these chapters further poems are used to show how these topics and themes permeate Hardy's poetic work. The book's final two chapters relate the poetry to wider matters. These include the social, economic and cultural background of Hardy's time, and the critical debates which have evolved about his work.
Table of Contents
- First selection
- main events in the life
- seeing
- love
- death
- language
- the wider social and cultural background
- critical responses.
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