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Auden on Hardy

“For more than a year, I read no one else but Thomas Hardy.” — Auden

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Pound on Hardy

Now there is clarity. There is the harvest of having written 20 novels first. — Ezra Pound on Thomas Hardy’s poems

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Provincialism

A certain provincialism is invaluable. It is the essence of individuality, and is largely made up of that crude enthusiasm without which no great thoughts are thought, no great deeds done. — Thomas Hardy

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A certain provincialism is invaluable. It is the essence of individuality, and is largely made up of that crude enthusiasm without which no great thoughts are thought, no great deeds done. — Thomas Hardy

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