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Hardy, Barbara Gladys was born on June 27, 1924 in Swansea, England. Daughter of Maurice and Gladys Emily (Abraham) Nathan.
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Nature, not art, makes us all story-tellers. Daily and nightly we devise fictions and chronicles, calling some of them daydreams or dreams, some of them nightmares, some of them truths, records, reports and plans. The object of this book is to look at these natural narrative forms and themes, which have been neglected by critics but recognized by narrative artists, using literary criticism in order to argue the limits and limitations of literature. Although Hardy's suggestions about narrative apply broadly to all artistic forms, in the second part of the book she approaches the subject through a detailed analysis of three authors, Dickens, Hardy and Joyce, all profound and far-reaching analysts of narrative structures and values.
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Encompassing experiences from the 1920s to the 1940s, this powerful childhood memoir focuses on one woman's upbringing in industrial South Wales. With vivid accounts of the two World Wars, a Baptist household, and an elementary school education, this powerful account is grouped thematically to reveal thoughts on family life and the compelling influences of culture, politics, religion, and love in one Welsh community in the early 20th century.
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In the title essay, Professor Hardy argues for the special advantage of lyric over other other literary genres in conveying intense private feelings publicly. She then gives detailed consideraton to the lyric poetry of John Donne, Arthur Hugh Clough, and a group of poets central to the modernist canon: Hopkins, Yeats, Aden, Dylan Thomas, and Sylvia Plath. Those interested in W.H. Auden will find the book of particular value, since Auden occupies a central place in it. W.H. Auden has frequently been held up as the modern example par excellence of a 'public poet' whose works betray relatively little in the way of personal emotion. In the cahpters entitled 'The Reticence of W.H. Auden, Thirties to Sixties: A Face and a Map' barbara Hardy shows the inadequacy of that characterization and opens the way for a fresh appreciation of Auden's achievement as a poet. Readers interested in modern poetry genearlly and all readers acquainted with Barara Hardy's previous books will the book of importance.
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Hardy, Barbara Gladys was born on June 27, 1924 in Swansea, England. Daughter of Maurice and Gladys Emily (Abraham) Nathan.
Bachelor, University College, London, 1946. Master of Arts, University College, 1948. Doctor of the University (honorary), Open University, 1980.
Lecturer, Birkbeck College, London, 1950-1965; professor, Birkbeck College, London, 1970-1989; professor, Royal Holloway College, London, 1965-1970; professor, Birkbeck College, 1970-1989; professor emeritus, University of London, since 1989; director, Yeats School, Sligo, England, 1991. Honorary professor University College, Swansea, since 1991.
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Fellow: Royal Society Literature. Member: Modern Language Association (honorary), Welsh Academy (honorary).
Married Ernest Dawson Hardy, 1946 (deceased). Children: Julia, Kate.