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Victorian Poetry ? 1979 West Virginia University Press 安徽师范大学外国语学院 安徽芜湖 周福霞 Abstract Hardys Poems of 1912-13 are seen as a carefully integrated process rather than a poetic bundling-an elegy mythically conceived. Several traditional myths have specific relevance to the elegy, including Tristram and Iseult, Aeneas and Dido, Tithonus and Aurora; but the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice provides the most enveloping analogue. The poets use of a mythic subtext transforms the events of the elegy from personal history to public myth, the two modes of perception being joined at a psychological center in