Thomas Hardy and British Poetry
Author : Donald Davie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 1973
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 9780710075307
Thomas Hardy and British Poetry
Author : Donald Davie
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 24,86 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Book Description
A penetrating analysis of Hardy's poetry and its legacy.
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy
Author : Dale Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 32,99 MB
Release : 1999-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139825550
Book Description
Thomas Hardy's fiction has had a remarkably strong appeal for general readers for decades, and his poetry has been acclaimed as among the most influential of the twentieth century. His work still creates passionate advocacy and opposition. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Hardy is an essential introduction to this most enigmatic of writers. These commissioned essays from an international team of contributors comprises a general overview of all Hardy' s work and specific demonstrations of Hardy's ideas and literary skills. Individual essays explore Hardy's biography, aesthetics, his famous attachment to Wessex, and the impact on his work of developments in science, religion and philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Hardy's writing is also analysed against developments in contemporary critical theory and issues such as sexuality and gender. The volume also contains a detailed chronology of Hardy's life and publications, and a guide to further reading.
Thomas Hardy's Pastoral
Author : Indy Clark
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137505028
Book Description
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.
Thomas Hardy--selected Poems
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Book Description
In Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems Tim Armstrong has brought together a collection of over 180 poems to form the first comprehensively-annotated selection of Hardy's poetry. 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. Headnotes to each poem give the reader information about its composition, publication, sources, and metrical scheme; on-the-page notes list significant variants in Hardy's manuscripts, point out literary and other allusions, and give full explanatory glosses. An appendix contains a selection of relevant passages from Hardy's notebooks, letters, and autobiography. Tim Armstrong's critical introduction discusses Hardy's career, his poetics, his use of memory and allusion and examines his position in the context of Victorian debates on aesthetics and belief. The generous selection of poems includes many lesser-known poems as well as those which have received most critical commentary, and the important elegiac sequence 'Poems of 1912-13' is included in its entirety. Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems will prove essential reading for undergraduate and sixth-form students of English literature and all those interested in early modern poetry.
Time's Laughingstock's and Other Verses
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,69 MB
Release : 2024-02-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Book Description
"Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses" by Thomas Hardy is a collection of poems that showcases the renowned English author's poetic prowess. In this anthology, Hardy explores a diverse range of themes, including love, nature, time, and the human condition. The title poem, "Time's Laughingstocks," is emblematic of Hardy's keen sense of irony and his contemplative perspective on the passage of time. Throughout the collection, readers can expect Hardy's characteristic use of vivid imagery, poignant reflections, and a deep engagement with the complexities of life. The verses may reveal Hardy's philosophical musings on fate, mortality, and the inevitability of change. "Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses" adds another dimension to Thomas Hardy's literary legacy, showcasing his ability to convey profound emotions and observations through the medium of poetry. It remains a valuable collection for those appreciative of Hardy's prose and poetry alike.
The Complete Poetry of Thomas Hardy
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1409 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN :
Book Description
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.
Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy
Author : Thomas Hardy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,18 MB
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0140436995
Book Description
Thomas Hardy abandoned the novel form at the turn of the century, probably after public reaction to Jude the Obscure, but continued to write verse displaying a wide variety of metrical styles and stanza forms and a broad scope of tone and attitude. This definitive volume contains selections from his numerous collections published between 1898 and 1928. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Thomas Hardy
Author : Barbara Hardy
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 18,11 MB
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1847143970
Book Description
The author offers close readings of Thomas Hardy's poetry and novels, regarding these as expressive forms of everyday and professional acts of the imagination. Hardy is placed in the long tradition of writers who subject is not art but imagination and whose most interesting aesthetic introspectionÆs, like those of Jane Austen and George Eliot, are oblique or sub-textual. So what the reader follows here is Hardy's imagining of imagination in his elegies and nature poems and in his major characters from Gabriel Oak to Tess and Jude.The themes and forms examined by Barbara Hardy include narrative, conversation, gossip, memory, gender, poetry of place and imaginative thresholds. Altogether the study is a lucid and accessible introduction, which locates Hardy's place in the tradition of English literature.
With the Grain
Author : Donald Davie
Publisher : Lives and Letters
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Book Description
First published in 1973 as Thomas Hardy and British Poetry, this book then represented a challenge to critical orthodoxy. It modified the image of Hardy the nostalgic countryman with that of Hardy the Victorian engineer of language. It also suggested that, far from being a minor poet, Hardy had been a major influence on British poetry in the period since high Modernism. Exploring the wide range of poets who may have learnt from Hardy, Davie associates its influence with a curtailing of ambitions which he states has afflicted modern poetry in Britain. This poetic loss of nerve leads Davie to the political malaise of England, its tensions and illusions. This edition contains Davie's study of Hardy, together with his later essays, and also works on modern British poetry and the condition of modern Britain.
