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Thomas Hardy and British Poetry by Donald Davie is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Professor Donald Davie argues that in British poetry of the last fifty years the most far-reaching influence, for good and ill, has been not Yeats, still less Eliot or Pound, but Thomas Hardy. To enforce his argument for Hardy as a key figure, the author shifts the emphasis from Hardy the nostalgic countryman to Hardy the laureate of a period of advanced technology and heavy engineering, conditioned by his early training as an architect, his career a model success-story achieved by self-help. He shows how Hardy’s poetry manifests, in its rigid symmetries and masterful solutions of gratuitously difficult technical problems, some of the imperious brilliance but also some of the limitations of the technologist, an engineer of language. Professor Davie demonstrates the double-edged nature of Hardy’s legacy to later poets—its wealth in some respects, its poverty in others—by considering poems by, among others, D. H. Lawrence, W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin, J. H. Prynne, Charles Tomlinson and Roy Fisher. He also discusses a poem in prose, J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.

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Author

Donald Davie

Publisher

Routledge & Kegan Paul Plc

Published

1973

Language

EN

ISBN

9780710003492

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities