Thomas Hardy: Selected Poetry and Non-Fictional Prose

ISBN-13: 9780333665343 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 480 str.

Thomas Hardy

Opis

Peter Widdowson's major new selection of Hardy's poetry offers the student a challenging assessment of his poetic achievement by juxtaposing Hardy's best known poems with some of his least known. In addition to the 184 poems and the selection of Hardy's prose writings (never before so fully annotated), Widdowson includes a lively introduction on Hardy's life and work, a critical essay re-assessing his place in literary history, and extensive explanatory notes on each poem and essay. The volume revitalises our understanding and enjoyment of a most enduringly popular poet and is set to prove a definitive student edition.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.- List of Abbreviations.- Introduction.- PART 1: A SELECTION OF HARDY'S POEMS.- The Familiar Hardy: Wessex Poems; Poems of the Past and the Present; Time's Laughingstocks; Satires of Circumstance; Moments of Vision; Late Lyrics and Earlier; Human Shows, Far Phantasies; Winter Words The Less Familiar Hardy: 'A brain spins there till dawn', Personal Poems; 'The Figure in the Scene', More Poems for Emma; 'Coded creeds...', Poems of Philosophy and Religion; 'In brotherhood bonded...', Poems of Social Observation; 'In brutish battle', More Poems about War; 'The Riddle', Poems of the Male Gaze; 'The Woman I Met'; 'Her large tenderness...'; 'The Woman Pays'; 'The play the town's to see...'.- PART 2: LITERARY AND SOCIAL COMMENT: A SELECTION OF HARDY'S NON-FICTIONAL PROSE.- Prefaces to Hardy's volumes of poetry; Preface to Select Poems of William Barnes; 'The Profitable Reading of Fiction' (1888); 'Candour in English Fiction' (1890); 'The Science of Fiction' (1891); 'The Dorsetshire Labourer' (1883); 'Maumbury Ring' (1908) Critical Commentary.- Reading List.- Notes.

O autorze

PETER WIDDOWSON was one time Professor of English Literature at the University of Gloucestershire, UK.