Hardy was so precociously modern in depictions of relationships, among other things. Few poets seem to have taken such delight in depressing subjects. I regard him like the film-maker Bergman: so grim as to be delightful. This poems has a "serious" side insofar as it is about memory, toward the end there. Like Larkin, Hardy makes me laugh.
Hardy was so precociously modern in depictions of relationships, among other things. Few poets seem to have taken such delight in depressing subjects. I regard him like the film-maker Bergman: so grim as to be delightful. This poems has a "serious" side insofar as it is about memory, toward the end there. Like Larkin, Hardy makes me laugh.
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