THOMAS HARDY ASSOCIATION
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DIRECTOR: ROBERT SCHWEIK
© 1999-2004
LOUIS UNTERMEYER ON HARDY
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Address: http://www.bartleby.com
Contact: Unidentified
Date: 07/01/04
From the opening page of the "Bartleby" site, select "Verse," and from that page select "Anthologies." On the "Anthologies" page, search for "Louis Untermeyer, ed." From the Untermeyer page, select "Biographical Sketches" which provides an excerpt
from Louis Untermeyer's Modern British Poetry (1920)--a brief biographical sketch by Untermeyer of
Hardy. From that page, clicking on "Contents" and then on "Alphabetic Index of Authors" leads to texts of "In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations,'" "Going and Staying," and "The Man He Killed."
COMMENT:
Untermeyer's brief assessment of Hardy as "one of the greatest living writers"
is largely of historical interest. His subtitling "'The Man He Killed'" as "From
The Dynasts" is, of course, altogether mistaken, and the text of "Going and Staying"
omits the final stanza and probably was derived from The London Mercury where it was originally
published in that truncated form in 1919. But the texts from which Untermeyer took the poems are not specified. See our GENERAL
CAUTION about such texts.
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