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Hardy's Poetry, 1860-1928

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. Dennis Taylor
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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvi
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  2. The Development of Hardy’s Meditative Lyric

    • Dennis Taylor
    Pages 1-38

  3. The Patterns in Hardy’s Poetry

    • Dennis Taylor
    Pages 39-87

  4. Hardy’s Apocalypse

    • Dennis Taylor
    Pages 88-138

  5. Epilogue

    • Dennis Taylor
    Pages 139-155

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 156-204
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Hardy insisted that his poetry steadily grew in skill and maturity. Hardy's Poetry, 1860-1928 traces this development. Gradually Hardy makes his lyric poem the model of a man's life: the way the lyric speaker forms his thoughts within the few moments of a reverie recapitulates the way a man has thought over a lifetime; the smaller interruption of the reverie portends the larger interruptions of life. This lyric model is supported by a distinctive imagery of visual patterns whose implications Hardy explores. These patterns come to symbolise the patterns of life and mind which crystallise over a lifetime and are belatedly revealed.

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