Moments of Vision


Moments of Vision is a collection of poems by English poet Thomas Hardy published in 1917. His largest poetic collection, Moments of Vision is unusually unified in emotional tone, and is considered to include some of the finest work of his late poetic career.

Themes

The key-note of the collection was given by the opening poem, with its examination of the mystery of consciousness in a material world, setting the stage for the introspective meditation on human feeling that pervades much of the volume. Having successfully achieved an integration of past and present in the Poems 1912-13, Hardy was able to capitalise on his ability to work through long-buried emotions in the present, balancing the vitality of his past visions against the march of time.
Some thirty poems related to his first wife, Emma, while other notable poems included were 'The Last Signal' (on William Barnes, and 'Logs on the Hearth' about his recently deceased sister.

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