Hay Fever (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: A. D. Hope
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Nature, Europe or Europeans, Death or dying, Austria or Austrians, Time
The Poem
“Hay Fever” was written in the author’s maturity, though not in his old age. It demonstrates that A. D. Hope, although he is sometimes considered primarily an imitator of eighteenth century poetic technique and a facile satirist, was also an innovator in structure and a lyricist at heart. While he was perhaps indebted to Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift in attitude, he was not in method, for he took numerous liberties in both structure and content that they would not have approved. In place of regular stanzas, the closed couplet, and iambic pentameter, Hope...
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