“The languid strings do scarcely move, / The sound is forced, the notes are few”

[larryhammer]

I’m not sure which is more startling, that Thomas Hardy wrote a sonnet addressed to the Matterhorn (ETA: link fixed), or that he wrote a sonnet.

—L.

Subject quote from “To the Muses,” William Blake.

Comments

[shewhomust]

Is it a particularly unlikely form for him to use? I was more disconcerted by those archaic verb forms in the sextet.

(BTW, there's a garble in your link text...)

[larryhammer]

I don't think I've ever seen one from him before -- he's better known for his variety of lyric stanza forms. And, usually, his colloquial language, unlike that sestet.

(That's what I get for posting from my phone: curly quotes in my HTML. Fixed. And thanks.)