Titlebook: Hardy‘s Lyrics; Pearls of Pity Brian Green Book 1996 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1996 lyric.poem.Thomas

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RationalismHardy felt too deeply the need for absolute intellectual integrity and too keenly the loss of traditional religious assumptions, a loss (as far as Hardy was concerned) traumatic both to himself and to society at large. Hardy was prepared to endure the inevitable sacrifice of solace that doubt entail

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Humanismetters’ or the ‘shingled pattern’ of a piece of wood; no matter that the object be no more than ‘a(chǎn) drinking-glass’ or a ‘box for tinder’; and no matter that the moment be merely a ‘tired’ traveller’s pause to lean back against ‘a(chǎn) stunted handpost just on the crest’ of a hill ‘In the solitude of the

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Personhoodnclude the affirmation of the personhood of a fellow human being. Loving-kindness means a tender, sensitive respect for someone, not just as a human being, but also as an individual person. One of the fundamental assumptions of loving-kindness is, as one critic puts it, ‘the value of individual life

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The Process of Mourningmptions, attitudes, and affirmations in the face of ‘the Worst’, . (G277–97) constitutes a classic instance. Yet when we extol Hardy’s sequence in the same breath as we do, say, Tennyson’s ., we must immediately add that Hardy’s is the more impersonal. Despite Tennyson’s disclaimer (‘The different m

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Natures as ‘children of the soil’.. Nevertheless, to their reviewers, Hardy’s early novels breathed the clean, fresh air of south-west England, with a coastal fragrance able ‘to neutralise the glare and noise of the hot London street…’. And it is this contrast between invigorating, innocent countryside an

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ecent years, moving beyond nationalism and politics to include issues of food production, gender, civil society, and culture, this powerful but simple framework has become increasingly unsatisfactory.

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Brian Greenecent years, moving beyond nationalism and politics to include issues of food production, gender, civil society, and culture, this powerful but simple framework has become increasingly unsatisfactory.

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