Hardy's Early Poetry: Romanticism Through a 'Dark Bilberry Eye'

by James Persoon

Not many authors are allowed the privilege of being retrospectively considered both masterful novelists and poets. Despite the fact that Thomas Hardy saw himself as a poet first, only recently have his poems been accepted as equal to his celebrated novels. Persoon explores how Hardy's poetic vision, seemingly cemented in his twenties, existed in constant tension between Darwin and Wordsworth, betweem a scientific outlook and the poetic temperament...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739101528
• ISBN13: 9780739101520
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.0"