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The Achievement of Thomas Hardy
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'Now there is a clarity. There is the harvest of having written 20 novels first'. - Ezra Pound. The essays collected here range widely over Hardy's career as both a novelist and a lyric poet. They offer fresh reading of individual works - including his last novel, The Well-Beloved , and his first collection of verse, Wessex Poems - as well as exploring such central topics as the nature of storytelling, and the relations between poetry and song. Challenging, lucid and accessible, these essays provide new insight into the achievement of Thomas Hardy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface by Phillip Mallett
- Notes on the Contributors
- 1 Merely a Good Hand at a Serial? from A Pair of Blue Eyes to Far from the Madding Crowd
- 2 Geology, Genealogy and Church Restoration in Hardy's Writing
- 3 'Gifted, even in November': the Meanings of The Well-Beloved
- 4 A Feast of Language: Hardy's Allusions
- 5 'As near to poetry as the conditions would allow': the Presence of the Poet in Hardy's Novels
- 6 Hardy's Architecture: a General Perspective and a Personal View
- 7 Wessex Poems, 1898
- 8 The Figure of the Singer in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy
- 9 Thomas Hardy's Narrative Art: the Poems and Short Stories
- 10 Noticing Things: Hardy and the Nature of 'Nature'
- 11 Rediscovering Thomas Hardy's 'Facts' Notebook
- Index