Article: War of the winds: Shelley, Hardy, and Harold Bloom.

CENTRAL TO THE EFFORTS OF SOME MAJOR HARDY CRITICS TO PROMOTE THEIR varied theoretical agendas in recent decades has been a shared emphasis on the affinities and influence linking the poetry of Percy Shelley to that of Thomas Hardy. Poet-critic Joseph Brodsky thinks that if T. S. Eliot had read Hardy instead of Laforgue, English poetical history in this century "might be somewhat more absorbing": "For one thing, where Eliot needs a handful of dust to perceive terror, for Hardy, as he shows in 'Shelley's Skylark,' a pinch is enough." (1) Since Brodsky has written his Hardy essay largely to defend the sort of traditional verse craft he personally excels in, the ...

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