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Channel Firing

Tuesday, October 9th, 2001
I’ve loved Thomas Hardy since high school. Although I had always loved reading, his novels, particularly Return of the Native and Jude the Obscure, came as a revelation to me. Their brutal honesty and unsentimental analysis of the human condition amazed me, especially since much of the literature I had previously encountered in high school [...]

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Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush”

Friday, December 31st, 2004
I included this poem in my January 1, 2002 entry and I still haven’t found a better poem to start a new year. Perhaps it’s a testament to the value of art that this poem written at the beginning of the 20th Century seems as valid today as it did the day it was written. [...]

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Hardy’s “Moments of Vision”

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
I’ve been wanting to return to the poetry of Thomas Hardy where my original love of poetry began, but haven’t been quite willing to take down the Complete Poems and begin reading from the beginning. So, I was pleased when wood s lot provided a link to Hardy’s MOMENTS OF VISION AND MISCELLANEOUS VERSES at [...]

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Hardy’s “The Wound”

Tuesday, July 26th, 2005
It’s been awhile since I’ve sat down and read a large number of Thomas Hardy’s poems at one time, and I’ll admit that I find his poetry darker and more pessimistic than I remember from my first reading, certainly more pessimistic than my personal philosophy. Still, I sometimes fear his viewpoint may actually be more [...]

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