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"The history of error": Hardy's critics and the self unseen.(Thomas Hardy)

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From: Victorian Poetry
Date: 20070622
Author:Richards, Jill

For one thing, many fine poems that have lyric moments are not entirely lyrical; many largely narrative poems are not entirely narrative; many personal reflections or meditations in verse hover across the frontiers of lyricism.

--Thomas Hardy, in the "Preface" to Select Poems of William Barnes (1)

Recalling a Gothic arch straying hazardously over its bounds, or the abrupt lankness of a wall where pattern anticipates a window, Hardy believed his poetry to reveal architectural moments of "cunning irregularity." (2) For Hardy, the "unforeseen" arises as poetic conventions ...

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