, The priest in "The Lost Pyx" must answer the call he has received and must look for the pyx he has lost. Similarly, Hardy must return incessantly to that call he received in his youth but rejected when he lost faith. Religion is inescapable as Hardy himself knew. In the "Apology" he wrote in 1922 on the occasion of the publication of Late Lyrics, he contends that "[?] poetry and religion touch each other, or rather modulate into each other; are, indeed, often but different names for the same thing" (CP 561). The amount of poems written suggests therefore their author's neverending quest for form and reasons to believe -recalling the enduring hope of the narrator of, CP 116) shows that the writer cannot get free of the influence of the Christian religion
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