Titlebook: Reading Thomas Hardy; Charles P. C. Pettit Book 1998 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998 access.corpus.epi

Blasphemy

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Promises: , and the Epic of Imperialism,on with the Napoleonic Wars which Hardy had lived with, tended and nurtured his entire life. Reading in typescript the first volume of Florence Hardy’s biography, ., Sir James Barrie commented: ‘. most striking thing in the book is that all his life he was preparing, getting ready, for his ., choppi

Choreography

white-matter

Presbyopia

Hardy and Time,ith or without the initial capital, is the subject of so much of his work. Few writers can have had less need to remind themselves of how much human life is shaped by the sense either of time past, of memories pushing into or pulling against the present, or more often of time as passing, the present

maverick

How to be an Old Poet: The Examples of Hardy and Yeats,st of it was written in the last decades of a long life.. I want to return to that subject here, but in a different way, expanding it to include another great modern poet, and shifting it upward to the level of theory: The Theory of Old Poets. That’s how our thinking about art works, isn’t it? We ha

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职业拳击手

Thomas Hardy, Epistolarian, both the aspects of epistolary activity mentioned in this conversation and, indeed, with a third, the ‘., I do not mean love letters, to fine women’, which Lord Chesterfield commended in a letter to his godson, Philip Stanhope, in 1768.

Ablation

,Distracted Preacher: Thomas Hardy’s Public Utterances,ark. It seemed such a fine title for my purposes at that long-ago moment when it was unthinkingly chosen, and since it still seems a fine title now I’ve decided to make the delicate shift from theft to appropriation, rather along the lines of what the contemporary music business calls a ‘tribute’ al

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