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Triangulated passions: love, self-love, and the other in Thomas Hardy's The Well-Beloved.
From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20021222
Author:Deangelis, Rose
... but when I try to imagine a faultless love Or the life to come, what I hear is the murmur Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape.
W. H. Auden
In W. H. Auden's poem "In Praise of Limestone," faultless love reminds the poet of a seamless limestone landscape. In Hardy's The Well-Beloved (1897), faultless love is a vanishing ideal, and a landscape of marble, the metamorphic form of limestone, unveils the connection between the erotic and the creative aspects of desire. Limestone, produced from the conjugal melding of micro-organisms with calcium from ...
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