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War of the winds: Shelley, Hardy, and Harold Bloom.

Publisher	West Virginia University Press, University of West Virginia
Publication	Victorian Poetry
Subject	Literature/writing
Format	Magazine/Journal
ISSN	0042-5206
Issues per Year	4
Volume	41
Issue	2
Published	2003-06-22

Role	Type	Name
Author	n/a	Martin Bidney
Person	Criticism and interpretation	Harold Bloom
Person	Works	Harold Bloom
Person	Comparative analysis	Thomas Hardy
Person	Criticism and interpretation	Thomas Hardy
Person	Comparative analysis	Percy Shelley
Person	Criticism and interpretation	Percy Shelley

CENTRAL TO THE EFFORTS OF SOME MAJOR HARDY CRITICS TO PROMOTE THEIR varied theoretical agendas in recent decades has been a shared emphasis on the affinities and influence linking the poetry of Percy Shelley to that of Thomas Hardy. Poet-critic Joseph Brodsky thinks that if T. S. Eliot had read Hardy instead of Laforgue, English poetical history in this century "might be somewhat more absorbing": "For one thing, where Eliot needs a handful of dust to perceive terror, for Hardy, as he shows in 'Shelley's Skylark,' a pinch is enough." (1) Since Brodsky has written his Hardy essay...

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