Taylor Hardy's Poetry, 1860-1928

2. Auflage 1989
ISBN: 978-1-349-20253-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten, eBook

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, D.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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