Hardy's Poetic Vision in the Dynasts: The Diorama of a Dream

by Susan Dean

Book Overview

Susan Dean uses Hardy's own metaphor--the diorama of a dream--to interpret The Dynasts, his largest and last major composition. She shows that the poem presents a model of the human mind. In that mind is enacted an event (the war with Napoleon) and, simultaneously, the watching of that event.

The author provides a reading of the poem in visual-dramatic terms, using the diorama stage as the vehicle for the poet's field of vision...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691614083
• ISBN13: 9780691614083
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"