HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H01016 2/1/01 "TESS QUESTION" ============================================ Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 09:56:48 -0500 From: Rosemarie Morgan Subject: Re: Tess >From Mandy SMYTH: I don't know if you can help me and I don't even know if this is the right address that I should be contacting you on, but I am struggling for a paper that I am writing. I am looking for contrasts in Tess where Hardy looks back to romanticism and also looks forward to the 'new', ie new women, new technology and the changes that were occurring within society. I would be really grateful for any tips, or any books that are available in England. I am also looking at the same theme in Hardy's poetry but am not having much luck, so any help there would be appreciated. Thanks Mandy Smyth =========== From: "Jon H." Subject: Re: Tess Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 07:18:00 -0800 Check these website for some help. http://www.flinders.edu.au/topics/Morton/Victorians/VS7_Body.htm http://mobydicks.com/lecture/ThomasHardyhall/wwwboard.html http://www.go.com/WebDir/Arts_and_Humanities/Books_and_literature/All_authors/G_I/Hardy_Thomas http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/HARDY.htm http://home.iae.nl/users/tklijn/pws/nwslttr6.htm ========== From: "James Gibson" Subject: Re: Tess Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 15:50:50 -0000 There is one poem which is the perfect example of the way in which Hardy, always a great lover of the Romantic poets, looks backward towards them, but is modern in his expression. That poem is 'On the Esplanade' (Complete Poems No.682). The romantic moon is described as 'bald' (a very unromantic word!), and there are echoes of Tennyson in 'petals fallen from a rose to waste...' but no Romantic poet would have used the word 'gimlet' in describing the 'pearl-strung row' of lights boring their way through the waves. Jim Gibson ========== Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:12:29 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: Re: Tess Dear Mandy, I see that you are a new member of the HARDY-L Forum. Welcome to the list! In future if you wish to send a question or message to the list you should send an e-mail to: HARDY-L@mailhost1.csusm.edu Apologies to subscribers who are already familiar with this information, but from time to time members who haven't written to the list for some time need to be reminded of this address as well. Note that it is different from the address for subscribing and unsubscribing, which is: HARDY-L-request@mailhost1.csusm.edu Mandy have you taken a look at the LINKS page on the TTHA web-site? The Poetry Page, the Poem of the Month Discussions, and the Novels Page may also be worth browsing through. Good luck with your research. Betty Cortus hardycor@mailhost2.csusm.edu PS. Thank you Rosemarie for forwarding Mandy's message to the list. ========== From: "Patrick Roper" Subject: RE: Tess Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 21:57:07 -0000 You might find the essay by Linda M. Shires called "The radical aesthetic of Tess of the d'Urbervilles" useful. It is in The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy edited by Dale Kramer (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999). There is also some excellent material in the book on Hardy's poetry. Patrick Roper ==========