Thomas Hardy's Medieval Mind

from The LRB Podcast Hosted by The London Review of Books

Two worlds collide in this Close Readings fusion episode in which Mary Wellesley talks to Mark Ford about the medieval in Thomas Hardy and the wider Victorian imagination. They discuss why Hardy liked to present himself as an Arthurian knight, his satirisation of the chivalric ideal in his novel A Pair of Blue Eyes, and the way his training as an architect influenced his devotion to poetic spontaneity and experimentation. Sign up for Close Readings here: https://lrb.me/closereadings

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