Hardy Flashcards
1
Q
Dugdale
A
The Emma poems are a fiction, but a fiction in which the author has now come to believe
2
Q
Constantine
A
For Hardy the realities of life were there to be engaged with honestly… not escaped in the quest for a higher reality
3
Q
Shelston
A
The consciousness of loss cannot be compensated by the artifice of memory
4
Q
Richardson
A
Hardy’s poetry is an obsessive investigation into desire and the death of possibility
5
Q
Hynes
A
Sense of a tragic nature of all human existence
6
Q
Widdowson
A
Hardy’s remorseful lyrical elegies on Emma… depend on the silencing of her voice
7
Q
Perkins
A
No hope is closing the gap between the speaker and bird
