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From: New Criterion
Date: 19991201
Author:Yezzi, David

Heir both to Hardy and--no less--to Pound, At which address now are you to be found?

--Dick Davis, on Donald Davie

He does not think that I haunt here nightly: How shall I let him know

That whither his fancy sets him wandering I, too, alertly go?--

--Thomas Hardy, "The Haunter"

A few months after Thomas Hardy's death in 1928, and only weeks before his own, Sir Edmund Gosse recorded on two gramophone discs a memorial for his nearly lifelong friend. While Hardy lived, Gosse declared, "if an Englishman of culture was asked: `Who is the present head of your ...

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