Thomas Hardy - Selected Poems

Informationen zum Autor Tim Armstrong Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung In Thomas Hardy: Selected Poems Tim Armstrong brings together over 180 poems in the first comprehensively annotated selection of Hardys poetry. Unlike most previous selections, this edition preserves the shape of the poets 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 Hardys manuscripts, point out literary and other allusions, and give explanatory glosses. An appendix contains a selection of relevant passages from Hardys notebooks, letters, and autobiography; and a bibliography suggests further reading. Tim Armstrongs critical Introduction discusses Hardys 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Chronology Introduction Hardys second career Turning to poetry Poetry as posthumous vision Necessity and free will Typology and the pattern of a life Sequences and patterns God and history Hardy and the dead The Poems of 1912-13 Restoration and the past Wessex Hardys style The Gothic art-principle Words Prosody Hardy and literary tradition Selecting Hardy A note on the annotations A note on the text The Poems From Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898) The temporary the All Hap Neutral Tones The Peasants Confession A Sign-Seeker Friends Beyond Thoughts of Phena Natures Questioning In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury I look into my glass From Poems of the Past and the Present (1901) V.R. 1819-1901 Drummer Hodge The Souls of Slain Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats A Commonplace Day To an Unborn Pauper Child Her Reproach His Immortality Winter in Durnover Field The Darkli...

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Contents
 
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Chronology
 
Introduction
 
Hardy’s ‘second’ career
Turning to poetry
Poetry as posthumous vision
Necessity and free will
Typology and the pattern of a life
Sequences and patterns
God and history
Hardy and the dead
The ‘Poems of 1912-13’
Restoration and the past
Wessex
Hardy’s style
The Gothic art-principle
Words
Prosody
Hardy and literary tradition
Selecting Hardy
A note on the annotations
 
A note on the text
 
The Poems
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1898)

1. The temporary the All
2. Hap
3. Neutral Tones
4. The Peasant’s Confession
5. A Sign-Seeker
6. Friends Beyond
7. Thoughts of Phena
8. Nature’s Questioning
9. In a Eweleaze near Weatherbury
10. ‘I look into my glass’

 
From Poems of the Past and the Present (1901)

1. V.R. 1819-1901
2. Drummer Hodge
3. The Souls of Slain
4. Rome: Building a New Street in the Ancient Quarter
5. Rome: At the Pyramid of Cestius near the Graves of Shelley and Keats
6. A Commonplace Day
7. To an Unborn Pauper Child
8. Her Reproach
9. His Immortality
10. Winter in Durnover Field
11. The Darkling Thrush
12. The Respectable Burgher on ‘The Higher Criticism’
13. The Self-Unseeing
14. In Tenebris I
15. In Tenebris II
16. In Tenebris III
17. Tess’s Lament
18. Sapphic Fragment
19. ’A

 
From Time’s Laughingstocks and Other Verses (1909)

1. The Revisitation
2. A Trampwoman’s Tragedy
3. In the Mind’s Eye
4. He Abjures Love
5. Let Me Enjoy
6. Julie-Jane
7. The Dead Quire
8. Night in the Old Home
9. After the Last Breath
10. One We Knew
11. George Meredith, 1828-1909
12. Yell’ham Wood’s Story
13. A Young Man’s Epigram on Existence

 
From Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries (1914)

1. In Front of Landscape
2. Channel Firing
3. The Convergence of Twain
4. ‘When I set out for Lyonnesse’
5. Wessex Heights
6. A Singer Asleep
7. Self-Unconscious
8. Under the Waterfall

 
‘Poems of 1912-13’

1. The Going
2. Your Last Drive
3. The Walk
4. Rain on a Grave
5. ‘I found her out there’
6. Without Ceremony
7. Lament
8. The Haunt
9. The Voice
10. His Visitor
11. A Circular
12. A Dream or No
13. After a Journey
14. A Death-Day Recalled
15. Beeny Cliff
16. At Castle Boterel
17. Places
18. The Phantom Horsewoman
19. The Spell of Rose
20. St Launce’s Revisited
21. Where the Picnic Was
22. The Obliterate Tomb
23. The Workbox
24. Exeunt Omnes
25. A Poet
26. In the Cemetery

 
From Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (1917)

1. Moments of Vision
2. The Voice of Things
3. Apostrophes to an Old Psalm Tune
4. At the Word ‘Farewell’
5. Heredity
6. Near Laniet, 1872
7. Copying Architecture in an Old Minster
8. To Shakespeare
9. Quid Hic Agis?
10. On a Midsummer Eve
11. The Blinded Bird
12. The Statue of Liberty
13. The Change
14. Lines to a Movement in Mozart’s E-Flat Symphony
15. The Pedigree
16. His Heart: A Woman’s Dream
17. The Oxen
18. The Photograph
19. The Last Signal
20. The Figure in the Scene
21. Overlooking the River Stour
22. The Musical Box
23. Old Furniture
24. The Five Students
25. The Wind’s Prophecy
26. During Wind and Rain
27. A Backward Spring
28. He Revisits His First School
29. ‘I thought, my heart’
30. The Shadow on the Stone
31. ‘For Life I had never cared greatly’
32. The Pity of It
33. In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’
34. A New Year’s Eve in War Time
35. ‘I looked up from my writing’
36. Afterwards

 
From Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922)

1. Weathers
2. ‘According to the Might Working’
3. The Contretemps
4. ‘And There Was a Great Calm’
5. The Selfsame Song
6. At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
7. The Collector Cleans His Picture
8. On the Tune Called the Old-Hundred-and-fourth
9. Voices from Things Growing in a Churchyard
10. After a Romantic Day
11. In the Small Hours
12. Last Words to a Dumb Friend
13. A Drizzling Easter Morning
14. ‘I was the midmost’
15. The Inscription
16. The Whitewashed Wall
17. After Reading Psalms XXXIX, XL, etc.
18. Surview

 
From Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles (1925)

1. Waiting Both
2. A Bird-Scene at a Rural Dwelling
3. In a Former Resort after Many Years
4. A Cathedral Façade at Midnight
5. The Monument-Maker
6. The Later Autumn
7. An East-End Curate
8. Sine Prole
9. A Sheep Fair
10. Snow in the Suburbs
11. A Light Snow-Fall after Frost
12. Music in a Snowy Street
13. In Sherborne Abbey
14. The Mock Wife
15. ‘Not only I’
16. Her Haunting-Ground
17. Days to Recollect
18. This Summer and Last
19. ‘Nothing matters much’
20. Before My Friend Arrived
21. The Bird-Cather’s Boy
22. Song to an Old Burden
23. ‘Why do I?’

 
From Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres (1928)

1. The New Dawn’s Business
2. Proud Songsters
3. The Prophetess
4. A Wish for Unconsciousness
5. The Love-Letters
6. Throwing a Tree
7. Lying Awake
8. Childhood Among the Ferns
9. A Poet’s Though
10. ‘I watched a blackbird’
11. A Nightmare, and the Next Thing
12. So Various
13. An Evening in Galilee
14. We field-women
15. He Never Expected Much
16. Standing by the Mantelpiece
17. Our Old Friend Dualism
18. Drinking Song
19. The Aged Newspaper Soliloquizes
20. Christmas: 1924
21. The Boy’s Dream
22. Family Portrait
23. Christmas in the Elgin Room
24. ‘We are getting to the end’
25. He Resolves to Say No More

 
From Hardy’s Uncollected Poems

1. Thoughts from Sophocles
2. The Eve of Waterloo
3. Prologue
4. Epilogue
5. On One Who Thought No Other Could Write Such English as Himself

 
Selections from Hardy’s Autobiography
Appendix I: Two Early Versions of Poems by Hardy
 
Appendix II

Product details

• Authors: Tim Armstrong
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2009
• EAN: 9781408204306
• ISBN: 978-1-4082-0430-6
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Longman Annotated Texts
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama