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Thomas Hardy : selected poetry and non-fictional prose /
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.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Macmillan Press,
1997.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.