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From: Victorian Poetry
Date: 20030922
Author:Morgan, Rosemarie

At some indefinable point in recent decades a significant new movement occurred in Hardy criticism. For want of a better term I would like to call it a "focalization" change for, indeed, there came a time when a greater loco-specific shape developed in individual critical works, and a far more detailed taxonomy. As the Hardy Association bibliographical list of early Hardy criticism shows ( ), there was a distinct predominance of generic titles in the first one hundred years of Hardy criticism (1870-1970). Typical was Lascelles Abercrombie, Thomas Hardy: A Critical Study. (London: ...

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