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Antología poética

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Thomas Hardy está considerado uno de los grandes novelistas de su tiempo, pero después de que críticos y lectores de su época le dieran la espalda a su ficción narrativa por considerarla demasiado incisiva, se refugió en su vieja pasió la poesía. Hardy combina un gusto por los paisajes del xix (con sus brumas y fantasmas) y los ambientes rurales con un estilo seco y templado que influirá decisivamente en poetas tan modernos como Larkin, Auden o Hughes. Su poesía prolonga algunos de los temas más queridos de su literatura como la ambición o la catástrofe. Pero si por algo destaca es por la exploración de la gama completa de los sentimientos amorosos (del éxtasis al abandono) con una complejidad y crudeza inéditas. El presente volumen ofrece al lector una antología que cubre una extensa parte de su obra poética en la excelente traducción de Xandru Fernández.

360 pages, Paperback

Published May 17, 2023

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Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy, OM, was an English author of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural. He regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain.

The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

The term cliffhanger is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's serial novel A Pair of Blue Eyes in 1873. In the novel, Hardy chose to leave one of his protagonists, Knight, literally hanging off a cliff staring into the stony eyes of a trilobite embedded in the rock that has been dead for millions of years. This became the archetypal — and literal — cliff-hanger of Victorian prose.

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January 16, 2024
Es una antología recomendable, con buenas decisiones de estructura. Hardy fue un gran poeta, aunque reconozco que el tono decimonónico me resulta algo lejano, quizá porque siento más afinidad con Effy, de Yung Beef.
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