Plans for establishing a Thomas Hardy chair of literature in the projected We-sex University recall that Thomas Hardy was once Persuaded to say what he considered the best passages in English prose and poetry, Lor his poetry lie cited Shelley’s Lament ’ as ‘‘the most beautiful of English lyrics,” and apologised for being so « old-fashioned ” as to love Byron’s deacription of the Lake of Geneva from * Childo Harold.' For prose he went to Carlyle, choosing the comparison between the growth of the earth and the growth of an oak in tire ‘ French Revolution 1 and the description of niglxt in -v/xiar team 'Saitw Tlesartus.’
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Evening Star, Issue 19001, 24 July 1925, Page 12
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