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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Study Of Thomas Hardy And Other Essays by D. H. Lawrence , Edited by Bruce Steele
D. H. Lawrences Study of Thomas Hardy, written in the early months of World War I, was originally intended to be a short critical work on Hardys characters, but developed into a major statement of Lawrences philosophy of art. The introduction to this work shows its relation to Lawrences final rewriting of The Rainbow and its place among his continual attempts to express his philosophy in a definitive form. Previously published posthumously from a corrupt typescript, the Study is now more firmly based on Kotelianskys typescript - Lawrence having destroyed the manuscript. The other essays in this volume span virtually the whole of Lawrences writing career, from Art and the Individual 1908 to his last essay John Galsworthy, written in 1927. The introduction sets these essays in the context of Lawrences life and work. The textual apparatus gives variant readings, and explanatory notes identify references and quotations, and offer background information.show more