Unlike most previous selections, this edition preserves the shape of the poet’s career by presenting the poems in the order in which they appeared in the Collected Poems of 1930, rather than re-ordering them thematically.
Thomas Hardy's greatness as a novelist and poet is universally acknowledged. These letters provide invaluable glimpses into his life, from the years as an unknown architect's assistant in London in...
The novels by Hardy taken as a whole are distinguished by their display of learning and their simple directness of narration, a combination responsible for the aura of sophisticated folklore that Hardy often achieves.
Thomas Hardy: The Poetry of Perception
Good modern editions of many of Hardy's novels are also available in The Penguin Classics and OUP's The World's ... in four volumes: Wessex Tales (1888), A Group of Noble Dames (1891), Life's Little Ironies (1894), and A Changed Man and ...
Thomas Hardy
BOOK - LENGTH CRITICAL STUDIES OF THE POETRY JG Southworth , The Poetry of Thomas Hardy , 1947 , rev . 1966 * S Hynes , The Pattern of Hardy's Poetry , 1956 * K Marsden , The Poems of Thomas Hardy : A Critical Introduction , 1970 D ...
This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of Thomas Hardy--the first for nearly thirty years.
Critical essays examine Thomas Hardy's poetry and fiction.
Hardy was an unknown architect in 1870, a famous novelist by 1895, and acknowledged as a great novelist, poet and epic-dramatist when he died in 1928.
In this series a contemporary poet selects and introduces another poet of a different generation whom they have particularly admired. This selection of Thomas Hardy poems are selected by Tom Paulin.
Although the central chapters are predominantly critical, offering independent readings of each of the novels (including those customarily considered 'minor'), those readings are developed within the context of available knowledge of Hardy ...
Thomas Hardy: The Sociological Imagination
"Thomas Hardy was one of the great Victorian novelists - and also one of the great twentieth-century poets. This is the first of the many paradoxes he presents. He was...
Both major novelist and major poet, with a distinctive off-beat and intensely personal style, Hardy is a modern writer born out of his time.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy: Great Classic Library
... Hardy's suggestion that he did not at that time see ... that other developments were shaping in the world around him ... After Fifty Years ( Macmillan , 1977 ) , pp . 28-42 . See too , Michael Ryan , ' One Name of Many Shapes : The Well ...
... Annual No. 2, Macmillan, London, pp. 3-29 — (1987), Topography in "The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid'", Thomas ... 1: 69-73. Lawrence, Berta (1986),'Thomas Hardy and the Duke of Monmouth', Thomas Hardy Journal, vol. 2, no. 3: 56-8 ...
Thomas Hardy: The Sociological Imagination