Hardy's Poetic Vision in the Dynasts: The Diorama of a Dream

by Susan Dean

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Susan Dean uses Hardy's own metaphor--the diorama of a dream--to interpret The Dynasts, his largest and last major composition. She shows that the poem presents a model of the human mind. In that mind is enacted an event (the war with Napoleon) and, simultaneously, the watching of that event.

The author provides a reading of the poem in visual-dramatic terms, using the diorama stage as the vehicle for the poet's field of vision...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691614083

ISBN13:9780691614083

Release Date:March 2015

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:330 Pages

Weight:1.02 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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