The Decay of Romanticism in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy
Description:
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the concept of a godless universe governed by a consciousless and conscienceless Immanent Will in Hardy's poetry is an ineluctable outcome, given the expanded scientific knowledge of the nineteenth century, of the pantheistic views of the English Romantic poets. The purpose is accomplished by tracing characteristically Romantic attitudes through the representative poetry of the early Victorian period and in Hardy's poetry.
The first chapter is a …
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Date:
December 1978
Creator:
Wartes, Carolynn L.