Click here (and scroll to the bottom of the page) to read the poem sequence. I’d like to start by making a claim that I have recently asserted elsewhere: The lyric poem is fundamentally elegiac. That is, the lyric constitutes both the inscription of a moment’s utterance and a memento mori—an object that cannot help [...]
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Nicholas Friedman lives in Ithaca, New York, where he works as a lecturer for the English Department at Cornell University.
Nicholas Friedman Has written the following articles:
Thomas Hardy’s “In Tenebris”: The Problem of Relativity
Posted on 13 November 2012
Posted in Classic Reading, October 2012: Thomas Hardy Special Issue, This MonthComments (1)
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