Thomas Hardy’s “The Bridge of Lodi” and Elizabeth Bishop’s “Questions of Travel"

In Thomas Hardy's poem "The Bridge of Lodi", in "Poems of the Past and the Present" (1901), about a visit to the site of Napoleon's early military success in Lodi, Lombardy, the speaker discovers that nobody there seems to know anything about that battle: "[...] wherefore should I be here, / Watching

The acknowledgments in the preface to Thomas Hardy’s “Poems of the Past and the Present” (1901)

In his Preface to "Poems of the Past and the Present" (1901), Thomas Hardy thanks "the editors and proprietors" of a long list of publications "for permission to reprint from their pages" poems they had previously published. At least in the United States, this is now a conventional statement for

On reading — or not reading — Thomas Hardy’s “Collected Poems"

When I began pondering my poem "Thomas Hardy Listens To Louis Armstrong" in 2002, I read Hardy's "Collected Poems", on the lookout for words and phrases to plunder and then incorporate into my planned poem. As I remembered it, I read the whole book of 948 poems. But today, after

“The Sunset Branch,” by W. S. Di Piero

Poetry by W. S. Di Piero: “When do we find ourselves, and where?”

What You Were Saying by George Franklin

What You Were Saying If the world should end while we are on one of our walks, I won’t complain or use my last minutes to imagine All the places we could have traveled or all the things I wanted us…

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Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy