42 Hardy,Literary Notebooks, II, p. 111 ; Eduard von Hartmann,Philosophy of the
Unconscious, 3 vols. in 1 ( 1884 ; repr. London: Routledge, 2000 ), I, pp. 246 – 7.
43 Hardy,The Dynasts, Fore Scene, lines 2 – 5 (p. 21 ).
44 Letter of 26 December 1920 ,Letters of Emma and Florence Hardy,p. 171.
45 Walter Benjamin,The Origins of German Tragic Drama, trans. John Osborne
(London: New Left Books, 1977 ), p. 137.
46 See Howard Caygill,Walter Benjamin: The Colour of Experience(London:
Routledge, 1998 ), p. 59 and ‘Benjamin, Heidegger and the Destruction of
Tradition’, inWalter Benjamin’s Philosophy:Destruction and Experience, ed.
Andrew Benjamin and Peter Osborne, 2 nd edn. (Manchester: Clinamen
Press, 2000 ), pp. 1 – 30 (pp. 10 – 21 ).
47 De la Mare, ‘Mr. Hardy’s Lyrics’, p. 681 ; Edward Thomas,In Pursuit of
Spring(London: Thomas Nelson, 1914 ), p. 196.
48 Edmund Gosse,Some Diversions of a Man of Letters(London: Heinemann,
1919 ), pp. 252 – 3 ; Hardy,Life,p. 265.
49 Hardy,LiteraryNotebooks,II, pp. 127 – 8.
50 Hardy,The Dynasts, Fore Scene (pp. 27 – 8 ).
51 Hardy,Life,p. 218.
52 See Josh Cohen, ‘Unfolding: Reading after Romanticism’, in Walter
Benjamin and Romanticism, ed. Andrew Benjamin and Beatrice Hanssen
(London: Continuum, 2002 ), pp. 98 – 108.
53 Thomas, ‘Mr Hardy’s New Poems’, p. 3.
54 Jahan Ramazani,The Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to
Heaney(Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1994 ), p. 50.
55 Millgate,Thomas Hardy,p. 470.
56 Postcard to Amy Lowell, 2 October 1914 ,inSelected Letters of Ezra Pound,
1907 – 1941 , ed. D. D. Paige (London: Faber & Faber, 1971 ), p. 40 ;Confucius
to Cummings, ed. Ezra Pound and Marcella Spann (New York: New
Directions, 1964 ), pp. 325 – 9.
57 Letter of 31 March 1921 , DCM. Reproduced in Patricia Hutchins, ‘Ezra
Pound and Thomas Hardy’,Southern Review 4 ( 1968 ), 90 – 104 (p. 99 ).
58 Pound,Selected Letters,p. 248.
59 LouisMenand,DiscoveringModernism(New York: Oxford University Press,
1987 ), p. 23.
CHAPTER 6 GOING OVER THE TOP: THE PASSIONS OF
WILFRED OWEN
1 Texts of all Owen’s poems are taken from volume I ofWilfred Owen: The
Complete Poems and Fragments, ed. Jon Stallworthy, 2 vols. (London: Chatto
& Windus, 1983 ).
2 Allyson Booth,Postcards from the Trenches: Negotiating the Space between
Modernism and the First World War(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996 ),218 Notes to pages 163 – 83