Timeline for What does this recondite quote by Hardy mean?
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| Apr 24, 2014 at 14:47 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | @user4550 More than half, as far as it goes. | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 14:45 | comment | added | user4550 | so my original interpretaion up there is half right? | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 14:42 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | If you mean Hardy's must come by nature, he means the poet's moral obligation to examine his authentic emotion, as it derives from his own 'nature' without mediation by intellectual categories or social convention. But yes, Hardy also invokes the notion that one's 'nature' is the poetic gift he is born with. And when he speaks of art he means not only technical skill in deploying words but also the moral and ethical discipline which the poet undertakes in accepting his poetic vocation. | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 14:05 | comment | added | user4550 | by nature...from the day you were born? by art means through skill? | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 14:00 | comment | added | user4550 | So this "must" is the same as "we must all die" in the sense of inevitability? | |
| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:51 | history | edited | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 24, 2014 at 13:43 | history | answered | StoneyB on hiatus | CC BY-SA 3.0 |