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Hardy's Metres and Victorian Prosody: With a Metrical Appendix of Hardy's Stanza Forms
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Book cover for 9780198129677
 
from Clarendon Pr (January 1, 1989)
9780198129677 | details & prices | 5.75 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $90.00
About: Thomas Hardy's experiments in poetic metre were rooted in dramatic developments in Victorian metrical theory, which, nurtured by the ideas of Hegel and theories of Gothic architecture, represented the first mature understanding of the abstract nature of the metrical form.