A twentieth century overview
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A twentieth century overview
(The Helm Information critical assessments of writers in English / general editor, Graham Clarke, . Thomas Hardy : critical assessments / edited by Graham Clarke ; v. 4)
Helm Information, c1993
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This set of volumes is the second in the "Critical Assessments of Writers in English" series, the aim of which is to provide complete collections of previously published, formative critical assessments covering the whole work of individual writers. They should be useful to serious readers of literature, researchers and advanced students. Many of the pieces included were originally published in journals or books which are now out of print or very difficult to obtain. Each set has an authoritative introductory survey, as well as a full bibliography and biographical details. Volume one offers a range of responses: biographical, memoirs, and a series of viewpoints by novelists and poets including, for example, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, W.H. Auden, Allen Tate, and more latterly, Philip Larkin, Donald Davie, Thom Gunn and John Fowles. Volume two begins with a section on Hardy's Wessex, the famed "half-real, half-dream country" of the novels. As well as offering important reference material for the student of Hardy, this section includes significant contemporary accounts of the Wessex area in both its topographical and literary aspects.
A section on contemporary studies of Hardy's work expands on the sense of Wessex. The remainder of this volume is given over to a series of essays and responses to Hardy's poetry - what he considered to be his most important work. Volume three is concerned with the major novels and offers a range of individual estimates of Hardy's prose. Volume four continues the response to the novels and concludes with a wide range of essays on general aspects of Hardy's writing, as well as re-evaluations of his writing since his death in 1928.
Table of Contents
- Volume 1 Contemporary reviews: "Desperate Remedies"
- "Under the Greenwood Trees"
- "A Pair of Blue Eyes"
- "Far from the Madding Crowd", "The Return of the Native"
- "The Trumpet-Major"
- "A Laodicean"
- "Two on a Tower"
- "The Mayor of Casterbridge"
- "The Woodlanders"
- "Tess of the d'Urbervilles"
- "Jude the Obscure"
- "The Well-Beloved"
- "Wessex Poems"
- Poems of the Past and Present"
- "The Dynasts" (1904, 1906, 1908)
- "Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses"
- "Satires and Circumstance". Volume 2 The writer and the poet: contemporary studies
- Hardy the poet
- "The Dynasts" (1904, 1906, 1908). Volume 3 Writers, writing and Wessex: contemporary essays and responses
- writers on the writing
- Hardy and Wessex. Volume 4 A 20th-century overview: the novels
- Hardy - the general context
- a postscript - letter on "The Poor Man and the Lady", Alexander Macmillan.
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