Haunted Hardy

Download or read book Haunted Hardy written by T. Armstrong and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-11-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardy was a poet of ghosts. In his poetry he describes himself as posthumous; as rekindling the cinders of passion; as the guardian of the dead forgotten by history; and as haunted by ghosts, particularly the spectre of the lost child (as in the rumour that he fathered a child in the 1860s). Using Derrida, Abraham and Torok and other theorists, and referring to Victorian debates on materialism, this book investigates ghostliness, historicity and memory in Hardy's poetry.