Wordsworth, Shelley, and Hardy: The Inheritance of Loss

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This article calls for a revaluation of Thomas Hardy’s Poems of 1912–13, viewing them as in dialogue with William Wordsworth’s Lucy poems and Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Jane poems. Though Poems of 1912–13 has been favoured with a great deal of criticism that aims to come to terms with its manifold influences, the Romantic influence upon Hardy’s collection has not been considered in this light. This article considers how Hardy brings Wordsworth and Shelley’s sequences into conversation with his elegies. Hardy reimagines both poets’ sequences to create his poetry of mourning.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Callaghan, M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5274-3549
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2024 The Authors. Except as otherwise noted, this author-accepted version of a journal article published in ELH: English Literary History is made available via the University of Sheffield Research Publications and Copyright Policy under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Dates:	Published: 13 March 2024 Published (online): 13 March 2024 Accepted: 4 April 2023
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	18 Apr 2023 11:32
Last Modified:	25 Mar 2024 10:26
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1353/elh.2024.a922013
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:198037

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