Thomas Hardy

 

 

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Literatur: Hardy
Literatur: Poetologische Lyrik
Literatur: Shelley-Rezeption

 

                Shelley's Skylark

          (The neighbourhood of Legborn: March, 1887)

 

5   SOMEWHERE afield here something lies
In Earth's oblivious eyeless trust
That moved a poet to prophecies –
A pinch of unseen, unguarded dust:

The dust of the lark that Shelley heard,
10   And made immortal through times to be; –
Though it only lived like another bird,
And knew not its immortality.

[43] Lived its meek life; then, one day, fell –
A little ball of feather and bone;
15   And how it perished, when piped farewell,
And where it wastes, are alike unknown.

Maybe it rests in the loam I view,
Maybe it throbs in a myrtle's green,
Maybe it sleeps in the coming hue
20   Of a grape on the slopes of yon inland scene.

Go find it, faeries, go and find
That tiny pinch of priceless dust,
And bring a casket silver-lined,
And framed of gold that gems encrust;
   
And we will lay it safe therein,
And consecrate it to endless time;
For it inspired a bard to win
Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme.

 

 

 

 

Druckvorlage

Thomas Hardy: Poems of the Past and the Present.
Second Edition. London, New York: Harper & Brothers 1902, S. 42-43.

Die Textwiedergabe erfolgt nach dem ersten Druck (Editionsrichtlinien).

PURL: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/miun.abw1990.0001.001
URL: https://archive.org/details/ahistorycritici00hardgoog




Erstdruck

Thomas Hardy: Poems of the Past and the Present.
London: Macmillan 1902.

 

 

Kritische und kommentierte Ausgaben

 

 

 

Literatur: Hardy

Callaghan, Madeleine: Shelley's Poet-Birds. In: Essays in Criticism. A Quarterly Journal of Literary Criticism 73.1 (2023), S. 30-52.

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

Goetsch, Paul: Thomas Hardy's Poems on Composition and Inspiration. In: Anglia 128.3 (2010), S. 446-466.

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.

Lennartz, Norbert: Thomas Hardy and Aspects of Anti-Romantic Ornithology. In: Anglistik 24.1 (2013), S. 137-148.

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.

 

 

Literatur: Shelley-Rezeption

Barcus, James E. (Hrsg.): Percy Bysshe Shelley. The Critical Heritage. London u.a. 1995.

Boyiopoulos, Kostas / Sandy, Mark (Hrsg.): Decadent Romanticism, 1780-1914. London u. New York 2019.

Conning, Carl-Ludwig: 'A poet, however, whom we fear that few Swedes know about': Hellen Lindgren's 1892 Essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley. In: Nordic Romanticism. Translation, Transmission, Transformation. Hrsg. von Cian Duffy u. Robert W. Rix. Cham 2022, S. 263-292.

Daniela, Cerimonia: Leopardi and Shelley. Discovery, Translation and Reception. Oxford 2015.

Eisner, Eric: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity. Basingstoke u.a. 2009.

Miranda, Omar F. / Singer, Kate (Hrsg.): Percy Shelley for Our Times. Cambridge u. New York 2024.

Mole, Tom: What the Victorians Made of Romanticism. Material Artifacts, Cultural Practices, and Reception History. Princeton, NJ 2017.

O'Neill, Michael: Shelleyan Reimaginings and Influence. Oxford 2023.

Schmid, Susanne: Shelley's German Afterlives 1814 – 2000. New York u.a. 2007.

Schmid, Susanne / Rossington, Michael (Hrsg.): The Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe. London u.a. 2008.

Shih, Terence H. W.: The Romantic Skylark in Taiwanese Literature: Shelleyan Religious Scepticism in Xu Zhimo and Yang Mu. In: British Romanticism in Asia. The Reception, Translation, and Transformation of Romantic Literature in India and East Asia. Hrsg. von Alex Watson u. Laurence Williams. Singapore 2019, S. 319-339.

Wheatley, Kim: Shelley and His Readers. Beyond Paranoid Politics. Columbia u.a. 1999.

 

 

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