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Thomas Hardy Modernist Poet

Thomas Hardy Modernist Poet Donald Davie, Thomas Hardy and Bn’tish Poet9 (London: Oxford University Press, 1972), p. 3. * There is much ongoing debate concerning the meaning of the terms modern, modernity, and modernism. I take modernism to have historical and critical or theoretical components. In Anglo-American criticism the term generally refers to the period between 1880 and 1940; this will be used here. The critical component is harder to establish. Following the lead of Matei Calinescu (Five Faces o Modernity, rev. f THOMAS HARDY War, when many English poets were killed off, and partly by the really tremendous impact of Yeats, whom I think of as Celtic, and Eliot, whom I think of as American.’ This argument has not been developed elsewhere at any length, although Samuel Hynes’s “The Hardy Tradition in English Poetry’’ suggests that Hardy is both an important modern writer and one who illustrates “that much modern poetry is traditional and continuous with the past, and that the apocalyptic uniqueness of modern experience has been e~aggerated.”~ claiming that Hardy By is not only a central figure in British modernist poetry, but that he is also the progenitor of a distinctly English strand of it, we cast a very http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History Duke University Press

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Duke University Press
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Copyright 1990 by University of Washington
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0026-7929
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1527-1943
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10.1215/00267929-51-4-535
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Donald Davie, Thomas Hardy and Bn’tish Poet9 (London: Oxford University Press, 1972), p. 3. * There is much ongoing debate concerning the meaning of the terms modern, modernity, and modernism. I take modernism to have historical and critical or theoretical components. In Anglo-American criticism the term generally refers to the period between 1880 and 1940; this will be used here. The critical component is harder to establish. Following the lead of Matei Calinescu (Five Faces o Modernity, rev. f THOMAS HARDY War, when many English poets were killed off, and partly by the really tremendous impact of Yeats, whom I think of as Celtic, and Eliot, whom I think of as American.’ This argument has not been developed elsewhere at any length, although Samuel Hynes’s “The Hardy Tradition in English Poetry’’ suggests that Hardy is both an important modern writer and one who illustrates “that much modern poetry is traditional and continuous with the past, and that the apocalyptic uniqueness of modern experience has been e~aggerated.”~ claiming that Hardy By is not only a central figure in British modernist poetry, but that he is also the progenitor of a distinctly English strand of it, we cast a very

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