Poems / Hardy ; [this selection by Peter Washington].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Washington, Peter.

Series:

Everyman's library pocket poets

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

254 pages ; 17 cm.

Other Title:

Hardy

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [1995]

Summary:

The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size & reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Hardy contains poems from Moments of Vision, Satires of Circumstance, Veteris Vestigia Flammae, Heredity, Short Stories, Afterwards, & an index of first lines.

Contents:

Any little old song

HEREDITY: Heredity

The Roman road

Transformations

Logs on the hearth

On one who lived and died where he was born

Wessex Heights

Old furniture

The pedigree

Domicilium

On the doorstep

MOMENTS OF VISION: Moments of vision

The self-unseeing On the esplanade

The second visit

Bereft

Neutral tones

Two lips

At middle-field gate in February

Night-time in mid-fall

A light snow fall after frost

Snow in the suburbs

Music in a snowy street

A merrymaking in question

Middle-age enthusiasms

The night of the dance

At day-close in November

Midnight on the great western

An August midnight

At the Royal Academy

A cathedral facade at midnight

In a cathedral city

Shut out that moon

A spellbound palace

The darkling thrush

The caged goldfinch

'I watched a blackbird'

Proud songsters

Weathers

A bird-scene at a rural dwelling

Autumn in King's Hintock Park

Friends beyond

A backward spring

Seventy-four and twenty

George Meredith

On the portrait of a woman about to be hanged

Wives in the sere

Near Lanivet, 1872

Imaginings

I look into my glass

SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: At tea

In church

By her aunt's grave

In the room of the bride-elect

At a watering-place

In the cemetery

Outside the window

In the study

At the altar rail

In the nuptial chamber

In the restaurant

At the Draper's

On the death-bed

Over the coffin

In the moonlight

SHORT STORIES: The photograph

The mound

The choirmaster's burial

Seen by the waits

the enemy's portrait

The rival

'A gentleman's second-hand suit'

Drummer hodge

The workbox

Her second husband hears her story

She hears the storm

Jubilate

A sheep fair

An unkindly may

Apostrophe to an old psalm tune

A hurried meeting

After a romantic day

A last journey

Squire hooper.

In a waiting-room

Faintheart in a railway train

The harbour bridge

At the aquatic sports

The country wedding

A trampwoman's tragedy

The clock-winder

The abbey-mason

Drawing details in an old church

The old workman

VETERIS VESTIGIA FLAMMAE: She opened the door

Thoughts of Phena

To Lizbie Browne

The glimpse

The old gown

To Louisa in the lane

Nobody comes

The monument-maker

The marble tablet

The figure in the scene

On a midsummer eve

On a heath

A countenance

Fetching her

At the word 'Farewell'

The last performance

The going

Your last drive

The walk

Rain on a grave

I found her out there

Without ceremony

Lament

The haunter

The voice

His visitor

A dream or no

After a journey

Beeny Cliff

At Castle Boterel

Places

The spell of the rose

St Launce's revisited

Where the picnic was

AFTERWARDS: During the wind and rain

We are getting to the end

In time of 'The breaking of nations'

Christmas: 1924

Afterwards

When I set out for Lyonnesse

He never expected much

Epitaph on a pessimist

A poet

The weary walker.

Notes:

Includes index.

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0679443681

9780679443681

OCLC:

32576414