british poetry in the age of modernism

the first user of six words or word-senses inTime’s Laughingstocksand Satires of Circumstance, four of which (‘blinkered’ ‘trist ...

‘those delightful sensations of moonlight and forests and haunted houses which I myself seem to have visited curiously enough’.^ ...

rather have had than yours... [and whom] above all he would have felt honoured by. For him you were the master of living poets a ...

discomfort and the dim agitation in that clumsy collection of vocables – ‘And adumbrates too therewith our unexpected troublous ...

seems to mean that the apparent lack of art is a carefully designed effect, and a demonstration of artistic intention. A year af ...

might just as suitably have chosen millions of other stones from a quarry whereon to display its beauties.^30 But for the archit ...

unaware of the results of its actions, which include humankind. As a result, ‘humanity and other animal life (roughly, though no ...

powerful or the less immanent its determination must be, for there must be something in his knowledge that lets him know why thi ...

also a grim rebuke to those once opulent. The Immanent Will is indiffer- ent to human desires, and it is exactly because this is ...

world, and since the will lies beyond that world, it is groundless, time- less and purposeless, an endless desire without aim or ...

possible. As commentators have asked, where would the self-consciousness necessary to grasp the self in renunciation come from?^ ...

Then up he sprang, and with his knife – And with his knife He let out jeering Johnny’s life, Yes; there, at set of sun. The slan ...

Hardy’s verse sounds predestined exactly because it is unhappily rhymed, because it registers fate by persisting remorselessly w ...

they do, or even experiencing difficulty or toil’ (II: 40 ). It is entirely opposed to the discursive virtues of judgement and r ...

desire self-annulment without promoting itself in disguise? Schopenhauer prohibited suicide for this very reason. But if the her ...

Hardy. As de la Mare commented, ‘poem after poem reiterates that this poor scene of our earthly life is a “show God ought surely ...

appearances is aleitmotifof Hardy’s: an out-of-season flower is ‘but one mask of many worn / By the Great Face behind’ in ‘The L ...

workmanlike his exoskeletally ‘crustacean’ style is, the more it would display the loss of very world it describes. Hardy’s hyph ...

Goethe, Schopenhauer had denounced allegory because it violated the Kantian idea that art must not be a translation of pre-exist ...

emptiness of the world controlled by Fate. The form’s indifference to its content, what Thomas called his ‘sonnets... so unlike ...