Eliot and Hardy: critics Flashcards
Eliot
….. is not……… all
- M. S
Mr Eliot is not in any tradition at all
- May Sinclair
Eliot
J. A…….. is a …….plus………he isn’t…….
- H. K
J. Alfred Prufrock is a name plus a voice. He isn’t a character
- High Kenner
Eliot
Eliot’s notion………seems….. purely………………….. uninspired by………. and un………… any…. rush……
- T L S
Eliot’s notion of poetry… seems to be a purely analytical treatment, verging sometimes on the catalogue, of personal relations and environments, uninspired by any glimpse beyond them and untouched by any genuine rush of feeling
- Times Literary Supplement
Eliot
with him……case of………… by too……..
all……..element of……..but here……………………………
- L W
with him it seems to be a case of missing the effect by too much cleverness. all beauty has in it an element of strangeness, but here the strangeness overbalances the beauty
- ‘Recent Verse’ Literary World
Hardy
………. was the moment……………………….
- C. T
- T. A
Emma’s death was the moment when Thomas Hardy became a great poet
- Clare Tomalin
(similar) - Timothy Armstrong
Hardy
the…………to which……….n….i….. keep him from en…………
his poems…………..vehicles……………..views
- I. H
the convictions to which he clings with naive integrity keep him from engaging with the variousness of life and changed in thought; his poems tend to become vehicles for the rehearsal of settled views
- Irving Howe
Hardy
even………….without…….., if it…………., is………..
-W. D. H
even pessimism without a cause, if it results in poetry like Mr Hardy’s, is justifiable
- William Dean Howells
Hardy
Hardy’s …… makes the…….. and yet d…………cannot………as……….
- G. B
(Hardy’s poetry) makes the past anew, and yet declares that it cannot be retrieved as present happening
- Gillian Beer
Hardy
the…. to……… ……. the poems.
when the s……………and most in doubt of…………………., he wants d……to b……….
- G. S
the wish to believe… connects the poems. When the speaker feels angriest and most in doubt of gods existence, he wants desperately to believe
- Gillian Steinberg
