Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) was a major English poet and novelist; his works, often set in the fictional county of Wessex, are memorable for their realism and criticism of social constraints. This book, the first volume of a two volume selected collection of his works, includes ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’, ‘A Pair of Blue Eyes’, ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’, ‘The Return of the Native’, ‘The Trumpet-Major’ and ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’.
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Selected from thirty years of his poetry, this annotated collection of verse explores the various forms Hardy found interesting, as well the philosophical scope of his work, and includes moving elegies of regret and love lyrics written for ...
Collected in this single volume are his eight books of verse, all the uncollected poems, 'Domicilium' and the songs from The Dynasts. This new edition contains an additional poem, The Sound of Her .
This importance is only partly due to his capabilities as a social historian or provincial chronicler. Far more important than these is his faithful exploration of the daily trials and tragedies of men and women as feeling beings.
... 255 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), 59 Ruskin, John, 49, 136,239 Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 10 Sassoon, Siegfried, 261 Saturday Review, 15, 54, 116, 117, 136, 138, 178 Scott, Sir George Gilbert, 58 Scott, ...
19 The London and South Western Railway ran one station, with the Great Western Railway opening a second ... The First Mrs Thomas Hardy (New York: St Martin's Press, 1979), and Robert Gittings and Jo Manton, The Second Mrs Hardy ...
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.
Contents Include: Wessex Poems and Other Verses Poems of the Past and the Present Poems of Pilgrimage Miscellaneous Poems Imitations Retrospect Time's Laughingstocks More Love Lyrics A Set of Country songs Pieces Occasional and Various ...
One of the literary world's great deceptions was perpetrated when Thomas Hardy wrote his Life in secret for publication after his death as an official biography. Since the true circumstances...
Tanner , Tony ( 1968 ) : ' Colour and Movement in Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles ' , Critical Quarterly , 10 : 219–39 ; reprinted ... Turner , Paul ( 1998 ) : The Life of Thomas Hardy : A Critical Biography ( Oxford : Blackwell ) .