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Palgrave MacMillan The Achievement of Thomas Hardy 2000 Edition by Phillip Mallett
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. Table of contents :- Preface by Philip Mallett Merely a Good Hand at a Serial? from a A Pair of Blue Eyes to Far From the Madding Crowd ; C.Pettit Geology, Genealogy and Church Restoration in Hardy's Writing; S.Gilmartin 'Gifted, even in November': the Meanings of The Well-Beloved ; M.Irwin A Feast of Language: Hardy's Allusions; M.Rimmer 'As Near to Poetry as the Conditions Would Allow': the Presence of the Poet in Hardy's Novels; W.Morgan Hardy's Architecture: a General Perspective and a Personal View; T.Hands Wessex Poems , 1898; J.Gibson The Figure of the Singer in the Poetry of Thomas Hardy; D.Karlin Thomas Hardy's Narrative Art: the Poems and Short Stories; D.Dunn Noticing Things: Hardy and the Nature of 'Nature'; P.Mallett Rediscovering Thomas Hardy's 'Facts' Notebook; W.Greenslade Index