Thomas Hardy's Poetry. The Instrumentality and Central Role of Time in Hardy's Lyrical Oeuvre and World view

Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Leipzig (Anglistics), language: English, abstract: The centrality of the entity of time in its various incarnations and occurrences is amongst the most prominent of Thomas Hardy's themes. The variety of Hardy's output, in structure, rhyme, metre, and ideas render a conc...