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Of Love and Loss - Hardy Yeats Larkin

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A study of the poetry of Hardy, Yeats, and Larkin in relation to their shared preoccupation with time, change, and loss, the most ancient and fertile theme in lyric and reflective verse, known to earlier English poets as mutability.

List of contents

Prologue
Acknowledgements
1.Time and Change: the Mutability Tradition
2. Hardy I: Joy
3. Hardy II. Pessimism
4. Yeats I: Faerie and Byzantium
5.Yeats II. The World of Time and Change
6. Larkin I: The Idealist
7. Larkin II. The Sad Pessimist
Epilogue

About the author

The author was successively lecturer and professor at the University of Hull from 1961 until 1997. He is primarily a Shakespearean scholar, but his books and articles range widely, from Greek and medieval romance to Renaissance tragedy, the writings of William Morris and WB Yeats, and the novels of Conrad and William Trevor. He is also the author of a historical work, Bloodstains in Ulster, and a family memoir, Two Brothers, Two Wars. From the Western Front to the Burmese Jungle.

Summary

A study of the poetry of Hardy, Yeats, and Larkin in relation to their shared preoccupation with time, change, and loss, the most ancient and fertile theme in lyric and reflective verse, known to earlier English poets as mutability.

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