Intriguing to see all the Hardy here recently. Of course, he's a great
poet, albeit one whose work I seldom found all that enticing. I had a
colleague who once presented a paper asking us to choose between Hardy
or Yeats. Well, I found that odd in itself, as one tends to remember
(or 'choose') individual poems, and both wrote great ones & poor ones,
but he was really asking us to choose Hardy because he was the morally
better person (based on what I was never sure of).
If I had to choose between the poets, based on my biases, & delight in
a number of poems, it had to be Yeats.
Just another example of diversity on the list, eh? And just to have a
couple of posts on another topic....
Doug
On 18-Dec-07, at 4:11 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> Thomas Hardy : The Voice
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