The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated)


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This grand collection includes the complete poetry of the great Victorian author Thomas Hardy, containing over 940 poems, verses and lyrics: Wessex Poems and Other Verses The Temporary the All Amabel Hap "In Vision I Roamed" At a Bridal Postponement A Confession to a Friend in Trouble Neutral Tones She Her Initials Her Dilemma Revulsion She, To Him Ditty The Sergeant's Song Valenciennes San Sebastian The Stranger's Song The Burghers Leipzig The Peasant's Confession The Alarm Her Death and After The Dance at the Phœnix The Casterbridge Captains A Sign-Seeker My Cicely Her Immortality The Ivy-Wife A Meeting with Despair Unknowing Friends Beyond To Outer Nature Thoughts of Phena Middle-Age Enthusiasms In a Wood To a Lady To an Orphan Child Nature's Questioning The Impercipient At an Inn The Slow Nature In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's Heiress and Architect The Two Men Lines "I Look into my Glass" Poems of the Past and the Present Embarcation Departure The Colonel's Soliloquy The Going of the Battery At the War Office A Christmas Ghost-Story The Dead Drummer A Wife in London The Souls of the Slain Song of the Soldiers' Wives The Sick God Genoa and the Mediterranean Shelley's Skylark In the Old Theatre, Fiesole Rome: on the Palatine Lausanne: In Gibbon's Old Garden Zermatt: To the Matterhorn The Bridge of Lodi On an Invitation to the United States... Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses The Revisitation A Trampwoman's Tragedy The Two Rosalinds A Sunday Morning Tragedy The House of Hospitalities Bereft John and Jane The Curate's Kindness The Flirt's Tragedy The Rejected Member's Wife The Farm-Woman's Winter Autumn in King's Hintock Park Shut out that Moon Reminiscences of a Dancing Man The Dead Man Walking Satires of Circumstance… Moments of Vision Late Lyrics and Earlier ... Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist, he was influenced in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth.










Thomas Hardy's Pastoral


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This book reads Hardy's poetry of the rural as deeply rooted in the historical tradition of the pastoral mode even as it complicates and extends it. It shows that in addition to reinstating the original tensions of classical pastoral, Hardy dramatizes a heightened awareness of complex communities and the relations of class, labour, and gender.




The Authors Club


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A Companion to Thomas Hardy


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Through original essays from a distinguished team of internationalscholars and Hardy specialists, A Companion to Thomas Hardyprovides a unique, one-volume resource, which encompasses allaspects of Hardy's major novels, short stories, and poetry Informed by the latest in scholarly, critical, and theoreticaldebates from some of the world's leading Hardy scholars Reveals groundbreaking insights through examinations ofHardy’s major novels, short stories, poetry, and drama Explores Hardy's work in the context of the major intellectualand socio-cultural currents of his time and assesses his legacy forsubsequent writers




Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles


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Offering a contextual overview of Hardy's classic tale, this text explores the key themes of rape, illegitimate birth and murder, as well as the explaining how these concepts shocked early audiences when it was first realeased.