Thomas Hardy has long been critically constructed as poet of Wessex and novelist of character and environment. Tess of the D'Urbervilles in particular being acclaimed a novelistic masterwork of the English national culture.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
The reader might try to read dactyls there, and can almost do it with the first three words, “heard no more,” but “again” requires one to read the syllables as unstressed followed by stressed, which makes reading “heard no more” as a ...
seventh poem of the Treasury is Shakespeare's 'Under the Greenwood Tree' which perhaps suggested the title for Hardy's 1872 novel. He kept returning to his copy of the Treasury, writing the date 'Sept 25-73' next to 'Had my friend's ...
His only ambition, so far as he could remember, was to have some poem orpoems in a good anthology like the Golden Treasury.Themodel he hadsetbefore him was'Drink to me only,' by Ben Jonson” (LW, p. 478). Hardy began aserious study ofThe ...
Collection of four stories.
... 310 Smaylh'ome Tower, 239 Smith, Bosworth, 77, 127, 25o, 254, 342 Smith, Sir Charles Euan, 257 Smith, G. M., Ioo, IoI, 113, 134 Smith, Miss (daughter of G. M. Smith), IOO Smith, Mrs. G. M., 1oo, 134, 167 Smith, Henry, 127 Smith, ...