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Tag: Thomas Hardy

264. (Thomas Hardy)

To make some attempt at getting at what Hardy’s poems grasp, I’ll look at one of the most famous later … More

Auerbach, high style, Poetry, Thomas Hardy, Victorian Poetry

83. (William Barnes)

William Barnes, born in 1801, is a contemporary of Tennyson and Robert Browning, and among his four collections of poetry … More

Dialect, elegy, Poetry, Thomas Hardy, Victorian Poetry, William Barnes

64. (Ezra Pound)

Of Ezra Pound’s poem “The Return,” Donald Davie remarks how “surprising” it is that “a poet who had scored his … More

Donald Davie, Ezra Pound, modernist poetry, Poetry, Thomas Hardy

5. (D.H. Lawrence)

V.S. Pritchett, introducing his edition of the Oxford Book of Short Stories, admits that he admires D.H. Lawrence most as a … More

Blackmur, D.H.Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Fiction, George Eliot, Modernism, Poetry, Robert Frost, Short Story, Thomas Hardy
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