The Final Years of Thomas Hardy, 1912–1928

The Final Years of Thomas Hardy, 1912–1928
Title The Final Years of Thomas Hardy, 1912–1928 PDF eBook
Author Harold Orel
Publisher Springer
Pages 167
Release 1976-06-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1349028908

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Hardy's Poetry, 1860-1928

Hardy's Poetry, 1860-1928
Title Hardy's Poetry, 1860-1928 PDF eBook
Author D. Taylor
Publisher Springer
Pages 254
Release 1989-10-06
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1349202533

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Hardy insisted that his poetry steadily grew in skill and maturity. Hardy's Poetry, 1860-1928 traces this development. Gradually Hardy makes his lyric poem the model of a man's life: the way the lyric speaker forms his thoughts within the few moments of a reverie recapitulates the way a man has thought over a lifetime; the smaller interruption of the reverie portends the larger interruptions of life. This lyric model is supported by a distinctive imagery of visual patterns whose implications Hardy explores. These patterns come to symbolise the patterns of life and mind which crystallise over a lifetime and are belatedly revealed.

Thomas Hardy in Context

Thomas Hardy in Context
Title Thomas Hardy in Context PDF eBook
Author Phillip Mallett
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 569
Release 2013-03-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1139618911

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This collection covers the range of Thomas Hardy's works and their social and intellectual contexts, providing a comprehensive introduction to Hardy's life and times. Featuring short, lively contributions from forty-four international scholars, the volume explores the processes by which Hardy the man became Hardy the published writer; the changing critical responses to his work; his response to the social and political challenges of his time; his engagement with contemporary intellectual debate; and his legacy in the twentieth century and after. Emphasising the subtle and ongoing interaction between Hardy's life, his creative achievement and the unique historical moment, the collection also examines Hardy's relationship to such issues as class, education, folklore, archaeology and anthropology, evolution, marriage and masculinity, empire and the arts. A valuable contextual reference for scholars of Victorian and modernist literature, the collection will also prove accessible for the general reader of Hardy.

Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy
Title Thomas Hardy PDF eBook
Author Tim Armstrong
Publisher Routledge
Pages 425
Release 2018-10-08
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317863208

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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 and His God

Thomas Hardy and His God
Title Thomas Hardy and His God PDF eBook
Author Deborah Collins
Publisher Springer
Pages 196
Release 1990-06-18
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1349113654

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Through a study of his verse and fiction the author attempts to present Hardy's seemingly conflicting views about the nature of God and His relationship with man. Also included is an assimilation of the philosophical influences on Hardy's writing, including Schopenhauer and Comte.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy

The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy
Title The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy PDF eBook
Author Rosemarie Morgan
Publisher Routledge
Pages 712
Release 2016-03-23
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1317041283

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In The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy, some of the most prominent Hardy specialists working today offer an overview of Hardy scholarship and suggest new directions in Hardy studies. The contributors cover virtually every area relevant to Hardy's fiction and poetry, including philosophy, palaeontology, biography, science, film, popular culture, beliefs, gender, music, masculinity, tragedy, topography, psychology, metaphysics, illustration, bibliographical studies and contemporary response. While several collections have surveyed the Hardy landscape, no previous volume has been composed especially for scholars and advanced graduate students. This companion is specially designed to aid original research on Hardy and serve as the critical basis for Hardy studies in the new millennium. Among the features are a comprehensive bibliography that includes not only works in English but, in acknowledgment of Hardy's explosion in popularity around the world, also works in languages other than English.

Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies

Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies
Title Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies PDF eBook
Author T. Dolin
Publisher Springer
Pages 240
Release 2004-04-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 023038966X

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For more than thirty years, books and essays on Thomas Hardy have been at the forefront of developments in academic literary studies. This collection brings together exciting new readings of Hardy's work by established and emerging critics which also reflect on continuities and changes in contemporary literary studies. Covering a wide range of topics and approaches, Thomas Hardy and Contemporary Literary Studies shows how Hardy's writing continues to provoke its readers to re-examine important issues in literary criticism and critical and cultural theory. Contributors include Terry Eagleton and J. Hillis Miller.