Thomas Hardy

 

 

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Literatur: Hardy
Literatur: Poetologische Lyrik
Literatur: The Graphic

 

   By the Century's Deathbed

 

5                     I.

I LEANT upon a paddock gate
  When shades were spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
  The weakening eye of day.
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
10     Like strings from broken lyres.
And all mankind that haunted nigh
  Had sought their household fires.


                  II.

The land's sharp features seemed to be
  The Century's corpse outleant,
15   His crypt the cloudy canopy,
  The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
  Was shrunken hard, and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
20     Seemed fervourless as I.


                  III.

At once a voice outburst among
  The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
  Of joy illimited.
25   An aged thrush, frail, thin, and small,
  In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
  Upon the growing gloom.


                  IV.

So little cause for carollings
30     Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
  Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
  His happy good-night air
  Some Blessed Hope, whereof he knew
  And I was unaware.

 

 

 

 

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The Graphic.
An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper.
1900, 29. Dezember, S. 956.

The British Newspaper Archive
URL: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

Die Textwiedergabe erfolgt nach dem ersten Druck (Editionsrichtlinien).


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Literatur: Hardy

Egbert, Marie-Luise (Hrsg.): The Life of Birds in Literature. Trier 2015.

Grafe, Adrian / Estanove, Laurence (Hrsg.): Thomas Hardy, Poet. New Perspectives. Jefferson (N.C.) 2015.

Helsinger, Elizabeth K.: Poetry and the Thought of Song in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Charlottesville u. London 2015.

Mackenney, Francesca: Birdsong, Speech and Poetry. The Art of Composition in the Long Nineteenth Century. Cambridge u.a. 2023.

Mallett, Phillip (Hrsg.): Thomas Hardy in Context. Cambridge 2013.

Puckett, Kent: Hardy's 1900. In: Modern Language Quarterly. A Journal of Literary History 75.1 (2014), S. 57-75.

Reiling, Laura M.: Rurales Inventar. Über die Vögel bei Thomas Hardy, mit einem Ausblick zu Emily Dickinson. In: Vögel aus Federn. Verschriftlichungen des Vogels seit 1800. Hrsg. von Manuel Förderer u.a. Berlin 2022, S. 163-190..

Tomiche, Anne: Métamorphoses du lyrisme. Philomèle, le rossignol et la modernité occidentale. Paris 2010 (= Collection "Perspectives comparatistes").

Wike, Jonathan: Toward the "Coppice Gate": A Reading of Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush". In: Philosophy and Literature 38.1 (2014), S. 129-143.

 

 

Literatur: The Graphic

Bacot, Jean-Pierre: The Illustrated London News et ses déclinaisons internationales: un siècle d'influence. In: L'Europe des revues II (1860-1930). Réseaux et circulations des modèles. Hrsg. von Évanghélia Stead u. Hélène Védrine. Paris 2018, S. 35-47.

Barthold, Willi W.: Der literarische Realismus und die illustrierten Printmedien. Literatur im Kontext der Massenmedien und visuellen Kultur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Bielefeld 2021.

Hedley, Alison: Advertisements, Hyper-Reading, and Fin de Siècle Consumer Culture in the Illustrated London News and the Graphic. In: Victorian Periodicals Review 51.1 (2018), S. 138-167.

Igl, Natalia / Menzel, Julia (Hrsg.): Illustrierte Zeitschriften um 1900. Mediale Eigenlogik, Multimodalität und Metaisierung. Bielefeld 2016.

King, Andrew u.a. (Hrsg.): The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers. London u. New York 2019.

Korda, Andrea: Printing and Painting the News in Victorian London. The Graphic and Social Realism, 1869-1891. Farnham u.a. 2015.

 

 

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