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Tag Archives: Thomas Hardy
Happy Birthday, Alfred Lord Tennyson
Well, Tennyson came up last night, as we sat talking over wine and cheese, in a conversation we were having about poets we loved. We also discussed politics, morons, reading, acting, the new production of Hair in Central Park, resumes, … Continue reading
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Tagged Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lord Tennyson, Michael Schmidt, poetry, T.S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy
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National Poetry Month: W.H. Auden
April is National Poetry Month. I’ll lead off here with my favorite poem, one I come back to again and again and again …At times, it’s been a life raft. I’m sad right now. I’m sad about so many things. … Continue reading
The Books: “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” (Thomas Hardy)
Daily Book Excerpt: Adult fiction: Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) – by Thomas Hardy. Tess is one of those books I was forced to read in high school. Unlike Tale of 2 Cities or The Great Gatsby I did … Continue reading
Poe
Thomas Hardy taught me to like Edgar Allan Poe, and Poe taught me about those ‘Mimes in the form of God on high, blind prophets that come and go.’ —John Cowper Powys
“commonplace”
What a commonplace genius he has; or a genius for the commonplace. — DH Lawrence on Thomas Hardy, 1928
National Poetry Month: Thomas Hardy
I know I have posted this poem before, but here it is again. I love it. It scares me. It’s so omniscent. Thomas Hardy’s scary poem about the Titanic. The Convergence of the Twain I In a solitude of the … Continue reading
New Biography of Thomas Hardy
Very interesting review by Adam Kirsch of the latest biography of Thomas Hardy, Thomas Hardy, by Claire Tomalin. Any Hardy fans, or any literature fans, will want to take the time to read that review. Quotes that stood out for … Continue reading
Thomas Hardy the Poet
Recently re-read Tess of the D’urbervilles (after not having read it since high school) and was amazed at not only how well he writes, but how much of a page-turner that book is. You can’t put the damn thing down, … Continue reading
Commonplace
“Now there is clarity. There is the harvest of having written twenty novels first.” — Ezra Pound on Thomas Hardy’s poems.
“Whatever Shall We Do?”
Here is what Robert Louis Stevenson had to say about meeting Thomas and Emma Hardy: [He was] a pale, gentle, frightened little man, that one felt an instinctive tenderness for, with a wife — ugly is no word for it! … Continue reading
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