The poems of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) are key to understanding 19th, 20th and even 21st century poetry. This collection of fresh essays sheds new light on Hardy's poems--some of which have received little critical attention--from a variety of thematic and analytical approaches, offering a detailed picture of how his works are currently being read. The contributors discuss why Hardy's poetic genius is less and less overshadowed by his career as a novelist and highlight his passionate attention to small details, his delight in ""noticing things"" and his ""eye for...mysteries.""
The poems of Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) are key to understanding 19th, 20th and even 21st century poetry. This collection of fresh essays sheds new light on Hardy's poems--some of which have received little critical attention--from a variety of thematic and analytical approaches, offering a detailed picture of how his works are currently being read. The contributors discuss why Hardy's poetic genius is less and less overshadowed by his career as a novelist and highlight his passionate attention to small details, his delight in ""noticing things"" and his ""eye for...mysteries.""Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Adrian Grafe is a professor of English at Artois University in France. He was an associate professor at the Sorbonne for 10 years, has published broadly on poetry, and was named a Fellow of the English Association in 2011. Laurence Estanove teaches English at Paris-Descartes University, France. The author of many essays on Hardy's novels and poems, she is a cofounder of FATHOM (French Association for Thomas Hardy Studies) and coeditor of its online journal.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Adrian Grafe and Laurence Estanove) I-Landscape into Memory "Thinking Like a Mountain"? Hardy's Poetic Vision of "Environment" (Adrian Tait) Reclaiming English Bones: Corporeal Commemoration in Hardy's War Poems (Melanie East) "Wild Wavering": Between Pastoral and Elegy (Farhi Öz) II-Misalignments Rhyming Events and the Pessimistic Muse (Stephen Tardif) The End Game: Thomas Hardy's Looking Glass (Richard D. Beards) From Pessimism to Idealism: The Pressure of Paradox (Laurence Estanove) III-Specters of Doubt and Faith Agnosticism and Freethinking: The Influence of Leslie Stephen (Ilaria Mallozzi) The Shadow of God in Poems of the Past and the Present (Stéphanie Bernard) Uncomfortably Numb: "In Tenebris" (Adrian Grafe) IV-Poetic Craft and Accidentals Messy Feelings, Tidy Forms: "Poems of 1912-13" (Emily Taylor Merriman) Challenging Time: Philological and Lexicographical Landscape (Emilie Loriaux) Hardy's Crafting of Barnes (Heather Hawkins) Punctuating Voice and Space (Charles Lock) Epilogue: The Transcendence of Things Seen (Michael Edwards) About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Adrian Grafe and Laurence Estanove) I-Landscape into Memory "Thinking Like a Mountain"? Hardy's Poetic Vision of "Environment" (Adrian Tait) Reclaiming English Bones: Corporeal Commemoration in Hardy's War Poems (Melanie East) "Wild Wavering": Between Pastoral and Elegy (Farhi Öz) II-Misalignments Rhyming Events and the Pessimistic Muse (Stephen Tardif) The End Game: Thomas Hardy's Looking Glass (Richard D. Beards) From Pessimism to Idealism: The Pressure of Paradox (Laurence Estanove) III-Specters of Doubt and Faith Agnosticism and Freethinking: The Influence of Leslie Stephen (Ilaria Mallozzi) The Shadow of God in Poems of the Past and the Present (Stéphanie Bernard) Uncomfortably Numb: "In Tenebris" (Adrian Grafe) IV-Poetic Craft and Accidentals Messy Feelings, Tidy Forms: "Poems of 1912-13" (Emily Taylor Merriman) Challenging Time: Philological and Lexicographical Landscape (Emilie Loriaux) Hardy's Crafting of Barnes (Heather Hawkins) Punctuating Voice and Space (Charles Lock) Epilogue: The Transcendence of Things Seen (Michael Edwards) About the Contributors Index
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