The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853264023
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 978

Book Description
This work comprises a collection of the poetic works of Thomas Hardy. Hardy's poetry spanned over 50 years from the last half of the 19th century to the period after World War I, and ranges from pessimistic works to those which were witty and fanciful.

Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015603332
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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The Complete Poems of Thomas Hardy

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780020696001
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1002

Book Description
A compilation of the nineteenth-century English writer's poems features previously uncollected works including epigraphs, Domicilium, and songs from The Dynasts

Thomas Hardy

Author: John Greening
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Thomas Hardy's reputation as a poet is higher now than it has ever been. It is generally agreed that the Poems of 1912-13, written in memory of his first wife, are some of the greatest elegies in the language. This invaluable new study concentrates on the 'Emma Poems', setting them in the context of Hardy's troubled first marriage, then analysing them one by one. John Greening - a poet himself and author of the Greenwich Exchange Guides to Poets of the First World War and W.B. Yeats - highlights the distinctive music of this twenty-one poem 'suite', while exploring the sexual and spiritual tensions concealed witihn Hardy's Dorsetshire and North Cornish landscapes.

Thomas Hardy

Author: Tim Armstrong
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317863208
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 425

Book Description
In Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems Tim Armstrong brings together over 180 poems in 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. Head notes 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 explanatory glosses. An appendix contains a selection of relevant passages from Hardy’s notebooks, letters, and autobiography; and a bibliography suggests further reading. 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

Author: Claire Tomalin
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101201924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 536

Book Description
"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of My Own. The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower, Hardy challenged the sexual and religious conventions of his time in his novels and then abandoned fiction to reestablish himself as a great twentieth-century lyric poet. In this acclaimed new biography, Claire Tomalin, one of today's preeminent literary biographers, investigates this beloved writer and reveals a figure as rich and complex as his tremendous legacy.

Thomas Hardy

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857285920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2377

Book Description
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’.

The Poetry of Thomas Hardy

Author: James Granville Southworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description

Unexpected Elegies

Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0892553618
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Thomas Hardy’s famous sequence of love poems, published as a book for the first time. When Emma Hardy died in 1912, her husband, the great novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, began to write “Poems of 1912–13,” a series of elegies that are among the most moving in the English language. Although the couple had been estranged for years, after her death Hardy fell under Emma’s spell again and was enthralled by her as he hadn’t been in decades. He transformed his hopelessly revived love into poetry, pouring out his yearning and passionate attachment to a love forever lost. “Poems of 1912–13” and the other elegies about Emma included in this volume have been read and discussed by poets and scholars for almost a century but never collected in their own book. Their accessibility, emotional power, and focus on the mysterious complexities of marriage make them of interest to a broad public. Readers will cherish this beautifully produced, illustrated volume of poetical testaments to enduring love.

Complete Poems

Author: Elizabeth Bishop
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780701178024
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
A comprehensive edition of one of America's greatest poets, this collection draws from her four published volumes, together with 50 uncollected works and translations of Octavio Paz, Max Jacob and others.