Contributor
Grafe, Adrian, editor.
Imprint:Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]
Descriptionvii, 224 pages ; 23 cm
Note:Introduction / Adrian Grafe and Laurence Estanove -- 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 -- 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 paradoxee/ Laurence Estanove -- 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 / Stephanie Bernard -- Uncomfortably numb: "in tenebris" / Adrian Grafe -- 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 / Sir Michael Edwards.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"This collection of fresh essays sheds new light on Hardy's poems 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"-- Provided by publisher.
