Journal article
An Alternative to the Architectural Elegy: Hardy's Unhoused Poems of 1912-1913
Victorian poetry, Vol.50(2), pp.207-225
06/22/2012
DOI: 10.1353/vp.2012.0008
Abstract
In so doing, his poems move away from confined spaces such as houses, rooms, and even graves, rejecting the idea of the elegy as providing a house for the dead. [...]when Shakespeare's sonnets, forecasting the death of his beloved in a kind of anticipatory elegy, promise to be a more lasting kind of sepulcher, they are promising to augment the characteristics of stone, rather than to do away with solidity, enclosure, and visible heft: your praise shall still find room Even in the eyes of all posterity That wear this world out to the ending doom. [...]if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for verse; And if no piece of chronicle we prove, We'll build in sonnets pretty rooms; As well a well wrought urn becomes The greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.\n" This careful sense-matrix is the foundation not only for this individual poem, but for the structure of Poems of 1912-1913 as a whole.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- An Alternative to the Architectural Elegy: Hardy's Unhoused Poems of 1912-1913
- Creators
- Louisa Hall
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Victorian poetry, Vol.50(2), pp.207-225
- Publisher
- West Virginia University
- DOI
- 10.1353/vp.2012.0008
- ISSN
- 0042-5206
- eISSN
- 1530-7190
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/22/2012
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398048402771
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