Poetry as Pagan Pilgrimage: the ‘Animative Impulse’ of Thomas Hardy’s Verse

All Hardy critics have noted how the poet-novelist’s works often dramatize a constant oscillation between the Pagan and the Christian. This essay proposes to observe once again how the two traditions seep into each other, but chooses to focus specifically on Hardy’s verse and to examine this in the...

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Main Author: Laurence Estanove
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2014-09-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cve/1503