Immanent Will

…force that he called the Immanent Will. Though subsequent criticism has tended to find its structures cumbersome and its verse inert, The Dynasts remains an impressive—and highly readable—achievement, and its publication certainly reinforced both Hardy’s “national” image (he was appointed to the Order of Merit in 1910) and his enormous…

…of his belief in “Immanent Will,” a blind and indifferent force that determines the fates (and generally blights the lives) of the privileged and the common people alike.