Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems (Longman Annotated Texts) - Softcover

Thomas Hardy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582040612 ISBN 13: 9780582040618

Publisher: Longman, 1993

Synopsis

Tim Armstrong has brought together a collection of over 180 poems. Preserving the shape of the poet's career, he presents the poems in the order in which they appeared in the Collected Poems of 1930. He also 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. He includes many lesser known poems as well as those which have received most critical commentary is included.

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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.

Tim Armstrong is Professor of Modern English and American Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, and author of Haunted Hardy: Poetry, History, Memory (2000).

Synopsis

This series provides the student with accessible and authoritative' annotated editions of key texts in English and American literature from medieval to modern times. This is the first comprehensively-annotated selection of Hardy's poems, providing the student with essential guidance, from a full introduction to headnotes to each poem and detailed on-the-page annotation. It will be the leading edition of a major poet.

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0582040612
• ISBN 13: 9780582040618
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496
• Editor: Tim Armstrong