http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/twentieth-century-poetry Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:31:56 -0400 Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:31:56 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/683/redefining-the-elegy-in-the-twentieth-century-thomas-hardys-the-convergence-of-the-twain-and-sylvia-plaths-daddy By Kathleen E. Gilligan - Forms of poetry are constantly changing as authors stray from what is conventional and familiar, and delve into what is new and different. Elegies that one finds in twentieth century literature are far from what one would have read centuries prior, and this changing convention can be attributed to writers like Thomas Hardy and Sylvia Plath. Born in 1840, Thomas Hardy is often thought of as a novelist. Perhaps it is put best in Louise Dauner's "Thomas Hardy, Yet and Again" when she says of Hardy, "Though he was one of the most controversial writers of his time, this gentle, soft-voiced, self-effacing... Tue, 21 Aug 2012 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/683/redefining-the-elegy-in-the-twentieth-century-thomas-hardys-the-convergence-of-the-twain-and-sylvia-plaths-daddy