Hardy Eliot AO5

The guardian - (hardy darkling thrush)

Written on the cusp of a turning point in history , the fin-de-sié cle’

The guardian (hardy , darkling thrush)

‘Romantically thematic use of nature and a modernist glimpse.’ J

Patricia Ingham (HARDY CONTEXT)

Dosrset, therefore, the basis of much of his

work, provided Hardy with living evidence for the view that nothing is static or certain

Virginia Woolf (on modernism /Eliot)

‘On or around December 1910 human character changed.’

Ezra pound ( Modernism/Eliot)

‘Make it new’

Prof John carey on Modernists View on masses (Eliot / Preludes)

Perhaps ‘preludes’ reflects a sense of dispair at the soullessness of humanity against a backdrop of mass culture

Seamus Perry (prufrock)

He is a man so paralysed by an overwhelming anxiety about the possibility of getting things wrong that he never arrives at decision, let alone action.

Seamus Perry (prufrock)

Self consciously modern type of poetry

Seamus Perry (prufrock)

Dramatic monologues create a mixture of sympathy and judgement

Seamus Perry (prufrock)

Prufrock is addressing an imaginary lover

Seamus Perry (prufrock)

refers to prufrock as tragi-comedy