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Satires of Circumstance
Thomas Hardy
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Similar to his novels, the underlying themes of the majority of the poems in this collection are death, departure and unfulfilled love, while the central piece is comprised of the 15 short "Satires of Circumstance," funny poems with a bittersweet touch.
Similar to his novels, the underlying themes of the majority of the poems in this collection are death, departure and unfulfilled love, while the central piece is comprised of the 15 short "Satires of Circumstance," funny poems with a bittersweet touch.
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It was a spectral housekeeping
Where fell no jarring tone,
As strange, as still a housekeeping
As ever has been known.
As daily I went up the stair
And down the stair,
I did not mind the Bygone there—
The Present once to me;
Its moving meek companionship
I wished might ever be,
There was in that companionship
Something of ecstasy.
It dwelt with me just as it was,
Just as it was
When first its prospects gave me pause
In wayward wanderings,
p. 13Before the
years had torn old troths
As they tear all sweet things,
Before gaunt griefs had torn old troths
And dulled old rapturings.
And then its form began to fade,
Began to fade,
Its gentle echoes faintlier played
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Community Reviews
Hardy’s greatest collection of poems, perhaps because it is also his oddest. We tend to think of Hardy as costume-drama fodder, agrarian, frozen in time. In fact, Hardy saw, long before TS Eliot, that English poetry needed to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 20th century.
Hardy’s scenes are
Ça va dans toutes les directions et je ne peux pas dire que j'ai été emporté par beaucoup de ces textes. Peut-être que c'est plus intéressant quand on a tout lu de Hardy, ce qui n'est pas mon cas.
There were one hundred and six poems in this volume which was published in 1914. One collection of fifteen poems was particularly given the title “Satires of Circumstance” which then became the title of the whole collection of more than a hundred poems.
The concerns raised in those fifteen poems wer
A book everyone should have on their bedside table.
Definitely rate the poetry over his prose.