Selected Poems / Thomas Hardy ; edited by David Bromwich.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928, author.

Contributor:

Bromwich, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century.

English poetry.

English poetry--20th century.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (500 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A generous selection of poems by a major Victorian writer, a virtuoso of traditional forms who came to be recognized as a uniquely inventive and original voice in modern poetry This selection of poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), edited by David Bromwich, covers the range of Hardy's extraordinary work: songs, ballads, and sonnets, dramatic monologues and elegies, along with poems that mark epochal events, such as the end of the Great War. This selection shows why Hardy has been admired as the most inward and personal of the moderns, yet also the most accessible and widely read. Included here is the full and integral text of Chosen Poems of Thomas Hardy, the final selection of his own work that Hardy chose to publish. Bromwich has selected more than one hundred fifty additional poems that cover the length of Hardy's career, from Wessex Poems to Winter Words. His critical and biographical introduction sets Hardy's achievement in the context of a career in prose and poetry that has no parallel.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chosen Poems of Thomas Hardy

Part I. Poems Chiefly Lyrical

Part II. Poems Narrative and Reflective

Part III. War Poems, and Lyrics from The Dynasts

From The Dynasts

Additional Poems

FROM Wessex Poems

FROM Poems of the Past and the Present

FROM Times Laughingstocks

FROM Satires of Circumstance

FROM Moments of Vision

FROM Late Lyrics and Earlier

FROM Human Shows

FROM Winter Words

Appendix A: Typography and Titles

Appendix B: Volumes in Which Chosen Poems First Appeared

Notes

Uncommon and Historically Signifi cant Place-Names

Acknowledgments

Index of Titles

Index of First Lines

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780300274615

0300274610

OCLC:

1408681900