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Cummings  \nDante  \nEmily Dickinson John Donne  \nH.D.  \nThomas Hardy Seamus Heaney  \nA.E. Housman  \nT. S. Eliot  \nRobert Frost  \nSeamus Heaney  \nHomer  \nLangston Hughes John Keats  \nW.S. Merwin  \nJohn Milton Marianne Moore Sylvia Plath Edgar Allan Poe Poets of World War I Christina Rossetti Wallace Stevens Mark Strand Shakespeare’s Poems & Sonnets Percy Shelley  \nAllen Tate Alfred, Lord Tennyson Walt Whitman William Carlos Williams William Wordsworth  \nWilliam Butler Yeats  \nThomas Hardy  \n© 2004 by Chelsea House Publishers, a subsidiary of Haights Cross Communications.  \nIntroduction © 2004 by Harold Bloom.  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publisher.  \nPrinted and bound in the United States of America.  \nFirst Printing 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nThomas Hardy / [edited by] Harold Bloom.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).—(Bloom’s major poets) Includes index.  \nISBN 0-7910-7891-4  \n1. Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928—Poetic works. I. Bloom, Harold. II. Series.  \nPR4757 .P58T48 2004 821’.8—dc22  \n2004003702  \nContributing Editor: Janyce Marson Cover design by Keith Trego Layout by EJB Publishing Services  \nCONTENTS  \nUser’s Guide 7  \nAbout the Editor 8  \nEditor’s Note 9  \nIntroduction 10  \nBiography of Thomas Hardy 16  \nCritical Analysis of “Hap” 25  \nCritical Views on “Hap” 28  \nJoanna Cullen Brown on the Rhetoric of the Mechanical Universe 28  \nDennis Taylor on the Language of Personification 31  \nRobert Langbaum on Hardy’s Late Romanticism 33  \nPaul Zeitlow on the Dramatic Posturing of the Speaker 35  \nCritical Analysis of “Neutral Tones” 37  \nCritical Views on “Neutral Tones” 39  \nSamuel Hynes on the Characteristics of  \nHardy’s Mature Style 39  \nJ.O. Bailey on “Neutral Tones” as a Poem  \nabout Ruins 40  \nTrevor Johnson on Hopelessness and Disillusion 42  \nDennis Taylor on Hardy’s Word Game 44  \nRobert Langbaum on Hardy’s Modernism 46  \nCritical Analysis of “During Wind and Rain” 48  \nCritical Views on “During Wind and Rain” 51  \nSamuel Hynes on the Imagery of Tone 51  \nGeoffrey Harvey on the Universality of  \nLived Experience 53  \nJoanna Cullen Brown on Journey through  \nthe Stages of Life 56  \nU.C. Knoepflmacher on Autobiographical Details 59  \nJohn Paul Riquelme on the Influence of Shelley 63  \nJohn Hughes on Music as a Link to the Transcendent 66  \nCritical Analysis of “The Convergence of the Twain” 68  \nCritical Views on “The Convergence of the Twain” 71  \nSamuel Hynes on Elements of Contradiction 71  \nWilliam H. Pritchard on Hardy’s Inventiveness 74  \nPatricia Clements on the Exclusion of Consciousness 77  \nJoanna Cullen Brown on the Sensuality of  \n“Convergence of the Twain” 80  \nTim Armstrong on Fate and Human Error 83  \nCritical Analysis of “The Darkling Thrush” 89  \nCritical Views on “The Darkling Thrush” 92  \nMerryn Williams on the Influence of Keats and Shelley 92  \nJohn Bayley on Hardy’s Treatment of Birds 95  \nGeoffrey Harvey on “The Darkling Thrush” as a Modern Lament 98  \nRobert Langbaum on Hardy’s Response to  \nKeats and Shelley 101  \nBrian Green on the Speaker’s Emotional State 104  \nPeter Widdowson on the Status of Despair 108  \nBarbara Hardy on “The Darkling Thrush” as a Threshold Poem 112  \nJohn Hughes on Hardy’s Ambivalent Attitude  \nTowards Music 114  \nCritical Analysis of “Afterwards” 119  \nCritical Views on “Afterwards” 122  \nMerryn Williams on Curious Optimism 122  \nTrevor Johnson on Hardy’s Family History 124  \nBarbara Hardy on Hardy’s Modest Self-elegy 128  \nWorks by Thomas Hardy 131  \nWorks about Thomas Hardy 133  \nAcknowledgments 138  \nIndex of Themes and Ideas 140  \nUSER’S GUIDE  \nThis volume is designed to present biographical, critical, and bibliographic","cbCait07IIHFvqGJ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCait07IIHFvqGJ","pdf",1240369,143,"English","# User's Guide\n# About the Editor\n# Editor's Note\n# Introduction\n# Biography of Thomas Hardy\n# Critical Analysis of “Hap”\n# Critical Views on “Hap”\n# Critical Analysis of “Neutral Tones”\n# Critical Views on “Neutral Tones”\n# Critical Analysis of “During Wind and Rain”\n# Critical Views on “During Wind and Rain”\n# Critical Analysis of “The Convergence of the Twain”\n# Critical Views on “The Convergence of the Twain”\n# Critical Analysis of “The Darkling Thrush”\n# Critical Views on “The Darkling Thrush”\n# Critical Analysis of “Afterwards”\n# Critical Views on “Afterwards”\n# Works by Thomas Hardy\n# Works about Thomas Hardy\n# Acknowledgments\n# Index of Themes and Ideas","[{\"question\":\"What types of information does the volume provide about Thomas Hardy?\",\"answer\":\"It provides biographical, critical, and bibliographical information, including analysis of Hardy’s best-known poems and a reference-oriented index of themes and ideas.\"},{\"question\":\"How is each poem’s critical section organized?\",\"answer\":\"Each poem is typically followed by a critical analysis that highlights significant themes, patterns, and motifs, along with selected critical views from leading commentators.\"},{\"question\":\"What reading approach does the user’s guide recommend?\",\"answer\":\"It recommends reading the poem beforehand and keeping a copy of the specific poem available for quick reference while studying the analysis.\"}]","Bloom's Major Poets - Thomas Hardy | PDF",1789771979,220]