contemporary, as the best poems always are. The best poems find a timeless center of human feeling and articulate it beyond doctrine, beyond dogma, beyond local circumstance, beyond the individual speaker. But to do that, such poems always remain specific, located in time and place. There's a real voice in Hardy's poem, a real person remembering his childhood.
from Fleda Brown: Traverse City Record-Eagle: On Poetry: Hardy found timeless voice
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