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POETRY OF PERCEPTION  \nTHOMASHARDY  \n# The Poetry ofPerception\n\nTOM PAULIN  \nSecond Edition  \nCTom Paulin 1986  \nSoftcover reprint of the hardcover 2nd edition 1986978-0-333-38741-2  \nAll rights reserved.No reproduction,copy or transmissionof this pubication may be made without written permission.  \nNo paragraph of this publication may be reproduced,copiedor transmitted save with written permission or in accordancewith the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956(as amended).  \nAny person who does any unauthorised act in relation to  \nthis publication may be liable to criminal prosecution andcivil claims for damages.  \nFirst edition 1975Second edition 1986  \nPublished by  \nTHE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD  \nHoundmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG212XSand London  \nCompanies and representativesthroughout the world  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication DataPaulin,Tom  \nThomas Hardy:the poetry of perception.—2nd ed.  \n1.Hardy,Thomas,1840-1928.Poetic works  \nI.Title  \nPR4757.P58  \n821'.8  \nISBN 978-0-333-38742-9  \nISBN 978-1-349-18145-2(eBook)  \nDOI 10.1007/978-1-349-18145-2  \n# For Giti\n\nPreface  \nix1  \nINTRODUCTION1 PERCEPTION132 INFLUENCES453 sOUNDS AND VoICES684 OBSERVATIONS OF FACT915 MNEMONIC SILHOUETTES1076 EIDETIC IMAGES1217 THE COGENCY OF DIRECT VISION1468 MOMENTS OF VISION180CONCLUSION211Notes213Select Bibliography219Index223  \nLet us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible:Let uschace our imagination to the heavens,or to the utmost limits of theuniverse;we never really advance a step beyond ourselves,nor canconceive any kind of existence,but those perceptions,which haveappear'd in that narrow compass.This is the universe of the imagina-tion,nor have we any idea but what is there produc'd.  \nDavid Hume,A Treatise of Human Nature  \nUnder that despotism of the eye(the emancipation from which Pytha-goras by his numeral,and Plato by his musical,symbols,and both bygeometric discipline,aimed at,as the first propaideuma of the mind)-under this strong sensuous influence,we are restless because invisiblethings are not the objects of vision;and metaphysical systems,for themost part,become popular,not for their truth,but in proportion asthey attribute to causes a susceptibility of being seen,if only our visualorgans were sufficiently powerful.  \nS.T.Coleridge,Biographia Literaria  \n# Preface\n\nIt's sometimes said that the reason why there are so few books aboutHardy's poetry is that the poems are so various that no one hasfound a consistent way of approaching them-a lever to shift themwith.My approach is through his stress on sight and the numerousissues which are implicit in it,but I have by no means confined mydiscussion of the poems to his positivism.This is mainly because Iwanted to give as full and flexible an account of his poetry as possible,and also because I wanted to redeem and develop the postgraduatethesis which is at the basis of this book.Here,I must stress that Ihaven't simply resprayed six chapters and a thousand rusty footnotes-I have revised,expanded,ruthlessly cut and totally rewritten myoriginal discussion,and I have added a great deal of new material.  \nThe discussions of Hardy's poetry which I found most valuable areDonald Davie's Thomas Hardy and British Poetry (though I've often dis-agreed with it)and also his great essay,Hardy's Virgilian Purples',inthe special Hardy issue of Agenda he edited.Samuel Hynes's The Patternof Hardy's Poetry is the only good full-length discussion of the poems I'veread,though again I often disagree with it,and two reference works-  \nF.B.Pinion's A Hardy Companion and J.O.Bailey's The Poetry of ThomasHardy:A Handbook and Commentary-are invaluable.  \nI owe great debts of gratitude for their help and encouragement toDennis Burden,Dorothy Bednarowska,R.N.R.Peers and the staff ofthe Dorset County Museum,Merryn Williams,Samuel Hynes,T.M.Farmiloe,David Williams and James Gibson for his helpover 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