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Thomas Hardy's Medieval Mind

The LRB Podcast

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The Freedom of Gothic Architecture

Hardy used more different metrical patterns or stanzaic patterns than any other poet ever in English. He loved the challenge of inventing new forms, like an architect might adore. Gothic architecture and a kind of architectural framework was a framework for thinking about poetry in about form.

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