Moments of Vision
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Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses is a collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy published in 1917. His largest poetic collection (including as it did the wartime sequence 'Poems of War and Patriotism'),M. Seymour-Smith, Thomas Hardy (London 1994) p. 797 Moments of Vision is (for Hardy's poetry) unusually unified in emotional tone, and is considered to include some of the finest work of his late poetic career.I. Ousby, The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (CUP 1995) p. 641
Themes
The key-note (and title) of the collection was given by the opening poem, with its examination of the mystery of consciousness in a material world,M. Seymour-Smith, Thomas Hardy (London 1994) p. 849-50 setting the stage for the introspective meditation on human feeling that pervades much of the volume.I. Ousby, The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (CUP 1995) p. 641 Having successfully achieved an integration of past and present in the Poems 1912-13,J. C. Brown, A Journey into Thomas Hardy's Poetry (London 1989) p. 162 Hardy was able to capitalise on his ability to work through long-buried emotions in the present, balancing the vitality of his past visions against the march of time.J. Lucas, Modern English Poetry: From Hardy to Hughes (London 1986) p. 47
Some thirty poems related to his first wife, Emma,M. Seymour-Smith, Thomas Hardy (London 1994) p. 848 while other notable poems included were "The Last Signal", on William Barnes,I. Ousby, The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English (CUP 1995) p. 641 and "Logs on the Hearth" about his recently deceased sister.J. Lucas, Modern English Poetry: From Hardy to Hughes (London 1986) p. 48 and p. 33
Influence
- Virginia Woolf took Hardy's phrase as a key to the occasions of heightened intensity that gave meaning to life: "the year is marked by moments of great intensity. Hardy's 'moments of vision'".H. Lee, Virginia Woolf (London 1996) p. 319
See also
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External links
- {{Gutenberg book|no=3255|title=Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses}}
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