Main Currents of English Literature: A Brief Literary History of the English PeopleF.S. Crofts, 1934 - 526 pages |
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... THOMAS HARDY ( 1840-1928 ) Hardy represents the opposite swing of the pendulum from the spiritual optimism of Meredith and Browning to a mood of profound pessimism which characterized the last years of the century VICTORIAN AGE 369.
... THOMAS HARDY ( 1840-1928 ) Hardy represents the opposite swing of the pendulum from the spiritual optimism of Meredith and Browning to a mood of profound pessimism which characterized the last years of the century VICTORIAN AGE 369.
Page 399
... THOMAS HARDY , after he ceased to write fiction , turned to poetry as a final expression of his attitude towards his cosmos . His consciousness of human misery , his conception of an un- known God , " some vast Imbecility at work in an ...
... THOMAS HARDY , after he ceased to write fiction , turned to poetry as a final expression of his attitude towards his cosmos . His consciousness of human misery , his conception of an un- known God , " some vast Imbecility at work in an ...
Page 474
... Thomas Hardy ( Writers of Today ) , 1916 . Johnson , Lionel . The Art of Thomas Hardy , 1894 . Abercrombie , Lascelles . Thomas Hardy , a Critical Study , 1912 . Beach , J. W. The Technique of Thomas Hardy , 1923 . Brennecke , E. Thomas ...
... Thomas Hardy ( Writers of Today ) , 1916 . Johnson , Lionel . The Art of Thomas Hardy , 1894 . Abercrombie , Lascelles . Thomas Hardy , a Critical Study , 1912 . Beach , J. W. The Technique of Thomas Hardy , 1923 . Brennecke , E. Thomas ...
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CHAPTER | 3 |
THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD | 23 |
OLD AND NEW IN Conflict | 224 |
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