Hardy's Poetry, 1860-1928

Hardy insisted that his poetry steadily grew in skill and maturity. Hardy''s Poetry, 1860-1928 traces this development. Gradually Hardy makes his lyric poem the model of a man''s life: the way the lyric speaker forms his thoughts within the few moments of a reverie recapitulates the way a man has thought over a lifetime; the smaller interruption of the reverie portends the larger interruptions of ...