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Date:
07/01/04
This is a sub-page of a site providing issues of a newsletter of the Powys Society--in this case the issue for April 2000, Number 39. It includes the text of a draft of an unpublished lecture on Hardy by Llewelyn Powys, dated 1908, transcribed for the newsletter by Neil Lee.
COMMENT:
The text is of the unfinished draft of a substantial lecture. Some indication of its character may be gleaned from the following quotations: "And as with Thompson and Leopardi and other great pessimists--so with Mr. Hardy, he stubbornly, and rigidly clings to the gloomiest reflections"; "Mr. Hardy loves the country people, all his stories deal with them"; "Thomas Hardy's victims are dogged by fate from the first entrance upon life"; and "Mr. Hardy takes also an elfish delight in the ironies of fate. He loves to present strange situations--outrageous improbabilities."
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