Thomas Hardy

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.

ISBN 1408204304   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9781408204306 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 596 Publisher Pearson Education Limited   Published in Harlow Imprint Longman   Series title Longman Annotated Texts Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780582040618 Publication date 14 Apr 2009   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress 2009000631   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 821.8   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Tertiary education Pages 392

Contents Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Chronology Introduction Hardy's 'second' career Turning to poetry Poetry as posthumous vision Necessity and free will Typology and the pattern of a life Sequences and patterns God and history Hardy and the dead The 'Poems of 1912-13' Restoration and the past Wessex Hardy's style The Gothic art-principle Words Prosody Hardy and literary tradition Selecting Hardy A note on the annotations A note on the text The Poems From Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898) * The temporary the All* Hap* Neutral Tones* The Peasant's Confession* A Sign-Seeker* Friends Beyond* Thoughts of Phena* Nature's Questioning* In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury*'I look into my glass' From Poems of the Past and the Present (1901) * V.R. 1819-1901* Drummer Hodge* The Souls of Slain* Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter* Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats* A Commonplace Day* To an Unborn Pauper Child* Her Reproach* His Immortality* Winter in Durnover Field* The Darkling Thrush* The Respectable Burgher on 'The Higher Criticism'* The Self-Unseeing* In Tenebris I* In Tenebris II* In Tenebris III* Tess's Lament* Sapphic Fragment*'AGAMMANUOMEGASIGMATAUOMEGA OMEGA From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses (1909) * The Revisitation* A Trampwoman's Tragedy* In the Mind's Eye* He Abjures Love* Let Me Enjoy* Julie-Jane* The Dead Quire* Night in the Old Home* After the Last Breath* One We Knew* George Meredith, 1828-1909* Yell'ham Wood's Story* A Young Man's Epigram on Existence From Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries (1914) * In Front of Landscape* Channel Firing* The Convergence of Twain*'When I set out for Lyonnesse'* Wessex Heights* A Singer Asleep* Self-Unconscious* Under the Waterfall 'Poems of 1912-13' * The Going* Your Last Drive* The Walk* Rain on a Grave*'I found her out there'* Without Ceremony* Lament* The Haunt* The Voice* His Visitor* A Circular* A Dream or No* After a Journey* A Death-Day Recalled* Beeny Cliff* At Castle Boterel* Places* The Phantom Horsewoman* The Spell of Rose* St Launce's Revisited* Where the Picnic Was* The Obliterate Tomb* The Workbox* Exeunt Omnes* A Poet* In the Cemetery From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (1917) * Moments of Vision* The Voice of Things* Apostrophes to an Old Psalm Tune* At the Word 'Farewell'* Heredity* Near Laniet, 1872* Copying Architecture in an Old Minster* To Shakespeare* Quid Hic Agis?* On a Midsummer Eve* The Blinded Bird* The Statue of Liberty* The Change* Lines to a Movement in Mozart's E-Flat Symphony* The Pedigree* His Heart: A Woman's Dream* The Oxen* The Photograph* The Last Signal* The Figure in the Scene* Overlooking the River Stour* The Musical Box* Old Furniture* The Five Students* The Wind's Prophecy* During Wind and Rain* A Backward Spring* He Revisits His First School*'I thought, my heart'* The Shadow on the Stone*'For Life I had never cared greatly'* The Pity of It* In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'* A New Year's Eve in War Time*'I looked up from my writing'* Afterwards From Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922) * Weathers*'According to the Might Working'* The Contretemps*'And There Was a Great Calm'* The Selfsame Song* At Lulworth Cove a Century Back* The Collector Cleans His Picture* On the Tune Called the Old-Hundred-and-fourth* Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard* After a Romantic Day* In the Small Hours* Last Words to a Dumb Friend* A Drizzling Easter Morning*'I was the midmost'* The Inscription* The Whitewashed Wall* After Reading Psalms XXXIX, XL, etc.* Surview From Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925) * Waiting Both* A Bird-Scene at a Rural Dwelling* In a Former Resort after Many Years* A Cathedral Facade at Midnight* The Monument-Maker* The Later Autumn* An East-End Curate* Sine Prole* A Sheep Fair* Snow in the Suburbs* A Light Snow-Fall after Frost* Music in a Snowy Street* In Sherborne Abbey* The Mock Wife*'Not only I'*

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