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Hardy's Early Poetry
James Pearson
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Description for Hardy's Early Poetry
Hardback. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DQ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.
Not many authors are allowed the privilege of being retrospectively considered both masterful novelists and poets. Despite the fact that Thomas Hardy saw himself as a poet first, only recently have his poems been accepted as equal to his celebrated novels. Persoon explores how Hardy's poetic vision, seemingly cemented in his twenties, existed in constant tension between Darwin and Wordsworth, betweem a scientific outlook and the poetic temperament. Perceiving Hardy's metaphorical double vision—physically represented by his own eyes, one of which was smaller than the other—we see how this bouncing between realism and romanticism informed not only Hardy's poems but ... Read more
Not many authors are allowed the privilege of being retrospectively considered both masterful novelists and poets. Despite the fact that Thomas Hardy saw himself as a poet first, only recently have his poems been accepted as equal to his celebrated novels. Persoon explores how Hardy's poetic vision, seemingly cemented in his twenties, existed in constant tension between Darwin and Wordsworth, betweem a scientific outlook and the poetic temperament. Perceiving Hardy's metaphorical double vision—physically represented by his own eyes, one of which was smaller than the other—we see how this bouncing between realism and romanticism informed not only Hardy's poems but ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739101520
SKU
V9780739101520
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About James Pearson
James Persoon is Professor of English at Grand Valley State University.
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