New Light on Hardy's ‘Panthera’

Abstract

IN 1909 THOMAS HARDY published in Time's Laughingstocks a poem called ‘Panthera’. It is not a poem which has attracted much attention, though unusual and interesting in many re‐spects. It is a dramatic monologue, the opening of which seems a deliberate attempt to imitate the idiomatic abruptness of some of Browning's better‐known monologues:

Citation

Bath, M.E. (1970), "New Light on Hardy's ‘Panthera’", Library Review, Vol. 22 No. 8, pp. 417-419. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012547