Chronology Entry
Year
1928
Text
Chang, Hsin-hai [Zhang, Xinhai]. A Chinese estimate of Hardy's poetry [ID D27877].
"Poetry heightens our appreciation of beauty through its appeal to the imagination and to the emotions, and Hardy's poetry seems to offer us very little delight in these realms. The fact is, not that Hardy fails to give us an imaginative or emotional appeal, but the quality of his imagination and emotion is different from the usual kind. It is charged with profound intellectual significance…
There is thus ample reason why Hardy's poetry will perhaps remain unpopular, but for those who have deep intellectual interests and who are willing to see human existence in crude and barbarous realism without the sweetness and the glamour which some of us in all times and all of us in some time find necessary to humour ourselves, there is very adequate compensation in the fair collection of poetry which Hardy has given us…
The leading and, at the same time, the most characteristic thought underlying all of Hardy's works is that life is a tragedy, and that it is a tragedy because of the eternal and inevitable conflict between the human will on the one hand and the immanent will on the other. We shall therefore consider what Hardy means by destiny or fate which underlies all human existence, and its relationship to his religious views and his general philosophic outlook upon life…
Hardy is one of the greatest of our modern poets, because in him more than in anyone else are reflected the manifold aspects of our modern consciousness. Hardy is, if anything, fundamental ; and if he seems to emphasise misery and suffering, it is because they are the great realities of our modern existence. We should be grateful to have one reveal to us the truth of our being, but it perhaps requires a still greater soul to exalt and ennoble it. Hardy, in any case, is among the immortals of English literature."
"Poetry heightens our appreciation of beauty through its appeal to the imagination and to the emotions, and Hardy's poetry seems to offer us very little delight in these realms. The fact is, not that Hardy fails to give us an imaginative or emotional appeal, but the quality of his imagination and emotion is different from the usual kind. It is charged with profound intellectual significance…
There is thus ample reason why Hardy's poetry will perhaps remain unpopular, but for those who have deep intellectual interests and who are willing to see human existence in crude and barbarous realism without the sweetness and the glamour which some of us in all times and all of us in some time find necessary to humour ourselves, there is very adequate compensation in the fair collection of poetry which Hardy has given us…
The leading and, at the same time, the most characteristic thought underlying all of Hardy's works is that life is a tragedy, and that it is a tragedy because of the eternal and inevitable conflict between the human will on the one hand and the immanent will on the other. We shall therefore consider what Hardy means by destiny or fate which underlies all human existence, and its relationship to his religious views and his general philosophic outlook upon life…
Hardy is one of the greatest of our modern poets, because in him more than in anyone else are reflected the manifold aspects of our modern consciousness. Hardy is, if anything, fundamental ; and if he seems to emphasise misery and suffering, it is because they are the great realities of our modern existence. We should be grateful to have one reveal to us the truth of our being, but it perhaps requires a still greater soul to exalt and ennoble it. Hardy, in any case, is among the immortals of English literature."
Mentioned People (2)
Hardy, Thomas
(Upper Bockhampton, Dorset 1840-1928 Max Gate bei Dorchester) : Schriftsteller, Dichter
Zhang, Xinhai
(1898-1972) : Übersetzer, Professor of Western Literature, Kuang Hua Universität Shanghai ; Professor of the Humanities and East Asian History, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Subjects
Literature : Occident : Great Britain
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1928 | Chang, Hsin-hai [Zhang, Xinhai]. A Chinese estimate of Hardy's poetry. In : Hibbert journal ; vol. 27 (1928). | Publication / Hardy107 |