Research Catalog

Title

Thomas Hardy : selected poems / edited by Tim Armstrong.

Author

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928

Publication

Harlow, England ; New York : Pearson Longman, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Armstrong, Tim, 1956-

Description

xvi, 375 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Longman annotated texts

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 > Criticism and interpretation
• 1800-1899
• English poetry > 19th century

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Hardy's 'second' career -- Sequences and patterns -- Hardy's style -- Hardy and literary tradition -- A note on the text -- The poems -- From Wessex poems and other verses (1898) -- From Poems of the past and the present (1901) -- From Time's laughingstocks and other verses (1909) -- From Satires of circumstance, lyrics and reveries (1914) -- Poems of 1912-13 -- From Moments of vision and miscellaneous verses (1917) -- From Late lyrics and earlier -- From Human shows, far phnatasies, songs and trifles (1925) -- From Winter words in various moods and metres (1928) -- From Hardy's uncollected poems -- Selections from Hardy's autobiography -- Appendix I. Two early versions of poems by Hardy -- Appendix II. Page references in Hardy's autobiography -- Bibliography -- Index of titles -- Index of first lines.

ISBN

9781408204306 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009000631

OCLC

• 298325805
• SCSB-12911532

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library