Hardy's Poetic Vision in "The Dynasts": The Diorama of a Dream

by Susan Dean

Susan Dean uses Hardy's own metaphor--the diorama of a dream--to interpret The Dynasts , his largest and last major composition. She shows that the poem presents a model of the human mind. In that mind is enacted an event (the war with Napoleon) and, simultaneously, the watching of that event. The author provides a reading of the poem in visual-dramatic terms, using the diorama stage as the vehicle for the poet's field of vision. She then defines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691063249
• ISBN13: 9780691063249
• Release Date: December 1977
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.